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Let me expand that briefly. In the exhibition “Working,” we invited students to photograph workers whom they knew, their family, who are working in their neighborhood, and interview them and to give us the photographs and the interviews, which we put up as an exhibition called “Working,” very cleverly designed, exhibited at our gallery, then took it on tour. It must have been in at least forty spaces.

Same thing with “Sweatshops.” And the work is so good that it sometimes -- you know, it amazes me. The paintings that were done for “Sweatshops” by students whose parents either worked or are working in sweatshops and where the students recalled that as kids they couldn't go to school, they were taken by their mother to the sweatshop to play on the floor, and some did with the materials that were there, did paintings. There's one painting called “Who Made Your Shoes?” They're very wonderful paintings. And, you know, it's something to be proud of that the union does this.

What was the time period in which this was all done?

This is being done -- just -- it's still being done.

Started five or six years ago?

Yes, since Women of Hope.

What other programs in the last fifteen years do you want to talk about, Bread and Roses programs?

Let me just look for a minute.

You had a very wide distribution of the Fasanella calendar.

First the “Forty Years of 1199.” We decided to celebrate that event, 1959 to 1999, forty years in the hospitals, and we have staff and volunteers who researched for photographs of that period. Cornell has our photographs, 1199 News, I had a lot, and began with the aid of a designer to design an exhibition for our gallery that could be moved.

They designed an exhibition on “Forty Years of 1199” with big photographs, but we usually have a position of expanding an idea. The idea is good, but you've got to make it better. So what we did is we got friends of mine to agree to do a sound portrait, a tape, which would be played as people walked through the gallery, and the sound portrait would consist of statements by members, by Dr. [Martin Luther] King [Jr.], by Ossie, by people with 1199 -- Davis --