The Works Progress Administration (WPA) as one of the programs of the New Deal, is best known for its public works projects, however it also sponsored project in the arts and made a group of programs named "Federal Project Number One" that employed thousands of actors, musicians, sculptors, writers and other artists that made several works that entertain the population and gave them hope in the mid of the Great Depression.
The "Federal Project Number One" received approximately $27 million of the WPA's budget and also achieved to establish more than 100 community art centers throughout the country.
