Francisco Toledo
(1940-)

Mexican Artist, Cultural Heritage Advocate
2005 Right Livelihood Award Winner

birthdate: July 17
birthplace:
Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico

Francisco Benjamín López Toledo is Mexico's most important living graphic artist. His graphic arts, paintings, pottery, sculpture and weavings have been exhibited all around the world. His concerns about the loss of the cultural heritage in his home state of Oaxaca drove him to help to establish a number of important art libraries, museums and cultural centers to preserve his homeland's rich historical, architectural and mythological history and cultural values as expressed in the arts. In 2005 Francisco Toledo received the Right Livelihood Award (often called the Alternate Nobel Prize) "... for devoting himself and his art to the protection and enhancement of the heritage, environment and community life of his native Oaxaca."

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