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announced as a meeting for interested participants.  TACO had sent out nearly a hundred packets of explanatory material in response to telephoned inquiries - and at the end of the presentation, when Judy asked how many wanted to work, every hand in the audience went up.  Needleworkers, promptly began preparing samples, while other participants proposed ideas based on the sample tasks designed for non-needleworkers.

TACO will receive inquiries, send out information, applications, and samples, and organize a first week of work in May, when Judy will review samples and meet with participants to start the process of artmaking and its documentation.  Barbara Michaels, TACO administrator of The Birth Project in the Southwest, will transport the systems developed in Benicia in order to share and record information about the project as it grows in the Southwest.

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Detail Chicago's pattern for Birth Tear. (Juliet Myers)

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Chicago presenting The Birth Project to an eager group in Houston February 1981. (Mary Margaret Hansen)

The work of creating an administrative system for The Birth Project is an ongoing, open process, and we are committed to integrating people and offering a relevant expression for the wealth of women's talents and energies.  In the past, women have consistently volunteered their services on behalf of others for little credit or reward.  The Birth Project offers the opportunity to volunteer on our own behalf - to help build a network of support and a wider recognition of our abilities through the production and distribution of symbols that affirm us.

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Detail Birth Tear, being embroidered by Etta Hallock. (Juliet Myers)