Enrique Chagoya was born in Mexico City in 1953. He immigrated to Berkeley, California in 1979. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA at UC Berkeley. He teaches art and art history at Stanford.

His paintings and etchings reflect his view of the changing nature of culture and his political and social activism. Liberty Club in the Sky seems a bold, controversial statement of transition and loss. His work is provocative by design. A lithograph by this artist was destroyed in Colorado by a woman with a crowbar at the Loveland Art Museum in 2010.

As we consider this image, we may discover a prayer we have not yet said for the world, for justice, for hope. Artists often see in stark and passionate terms and challenge us to see similarly. May our prayers reach skyward in the gaze of this Jesus.

In gratitude, faith and hope,

Sandy Prouty
Minister of Children and Families
Montview Church