Oaxaca, OaxOn July 22, Silvia del Carmen López Toledo, sister of the artist and philanthropist Francisco Toledo (1940 – 2019), passed away. Silvia dedicated herself to teaching, but also to cultural promotion, mainly in indigenous communities.
Born in Ciudad Ixtepec, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, she dedicated 20 years to teaching, said her daughter Andrea Castañeda López who explained “she left a great example and legacy at Colegio Madrid, where she worked for around 20 years, she was also at the National Indigenous Institute (INI) and her last job was at the Museum of Popular Cultures, she was very focused on working in communities and promoting popular art.”
After this, he said, he dedicated himself to cultural promotion mainly in indigenous communities, through this he achieved the dissemination and promotion of this art through the mounting of exhibitions.
Castañeda López explained, “She was very involved in setting up exhibitions to promote the work of artisans from different parts of the Republic and she organized several events in indigenous communities.”
She added that Silvia del Carmen maintained a close relationship with the artist Francisco Toledo and his family, maintaining a special relationship with the artist’s children “she always loved her five children as if they were her own.”
Andrea Castañeda said that her mother was a person who “had an impressive heart, she was a person of one piece, loving, honest, sincere, happy and very simple. She helped people, shared everything she had, taught us generosity, to live and move through this world with humility.”
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– 2024-07-31 17:05:03
