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."
