sentences:  A student of Antoni Hajdecki, Dźwigaj completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków in the years 1972-77, where he now directs the studio of Ceramic Sculpture in addition to lecturing on sacred art at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Kraków.He began his artistic career working with the Roman Catholic Church.In the 1980s he completed a series of bronze casts for the cathedral in Tarnów, Poland.