A portrait of Margaret Tedesco taken in 1985, included in her 2017 solo show ‘Persuasive Light’ at City Limits in Oakland. (Courtesy of City Limits)

Margaret Tedesco, an artist, curator and Bay Area art-world supporter, died on Saturday, Oct. 18, several years after she was diagnosed with cancer.

Tedesco was a generous, nearly omnipresent figure at Bay Area performances, poetry readings, gallery openings, film screenings and talks. Sometimes she was the artist. More often, she was a member of the audience — one who would always let you know what she thought.

“She pushed people to grow because she did that,” says Leila Weefur, a close friend and collaborator who curated, with Tedesco, the 2021 exhibition A Spirit of Disruption at the San Francisco Art Institute. “She did whatever sh

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