Francisco Toledo (b. 1941, Juchitan, Oaxaca, México) is a Mexican graphic artist. He studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca and the Centro Superior de Artes Aplicadas del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, where he studied graphic arts with Guillermo Silva Santamaria. In 1960 he moved to Paris and traveled throughout Europe. In 1965 when he returned to Mexico he started to promote and preserve the arts and crafts in his native state of Oaxaca. He designed tapestries with the craftsmen of Teotitlan del Valle, and in 1988 he created the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO). The Mexican state of Oaxaca (Pronounced wa-HA-ka) is in the south west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. ... Mexico or, in Spanish, México, is: Mexico, a federal republic in North America Mexico City, that countrys capital city Mexican Federal District, the federal district containing that capital city Estado de México (State of Mexico), one of that republics 31 constituent states Mexico is also the... Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message, or facilitate understanding. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ...

His social and cultural concerns about his home state led to his participation in the establishment of an important art library at the IAGO, and his involvement in the founding of the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Oaxaca (MACO), the Patronato Pro-Defensa y Conservacion del Patrimonio Cultural de Oaxaca, a library for the blind, a photographic center, and the Eduardo Mata Music Library to name a few of his projects. Toledo's outstanding creativity has been expressed in pottery, sculpture, weaving, graphic arts, and paintings. He has had exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Belgium, France, Japan, Sweden, the United States, as well as other countries. Toledo is simultaneously an exceptional artist and a patron and guardian of the arts and the crafts of his state of Oaxaca. Blindness can be defined physiologically as the condition of lacking visual perception. ...