In 2014, following a major restoration of the 27 murals at Coit Tower, I was asked by the San Francisco Art Commission to rewrite the interpretive plaques around the tower’s interior walls that assist viewers in understanding these New Deal artworks. Added to the tower in 1934, the murals were the first commission in the country under the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the precursor to the federal art programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), providing artists paying jobs during the Depression.