Workingman Collective  Workingman Collective is a collaborative group of artists and other professionals whose membership, goals and missions change with each project. While experts from a range of professions move in and out of various projects, the core members of Workingman Collective are Tom Ashcraft, Janis Goodman, and Peter Winant. Founded in 2005, Workingman Collective is based in the Washington, D.C. area and has exhibited work and created projects in the public domain in the U.S, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Represented by Hemphill Fine Arts  Workingman Collective pushes past the idea of the masterwork and its singular vision, into projects that explore the nature of collaboration and cooperation. For the Collective the viewer’s participation is tantamount. The process employed moves through stages from the collection of information to the construction of an object or situation to the participation of the audience. Typically participation alters the process, producing new information that is integrated into the art experience. Workingman Collective’s projects have worked to generate environmental awareness, stimulate the re-identification of a population with its hometown history, and urged participates into strengthening relationships with their neighbors. Workingman Collective is interested in process, invention, chance, and the public. In 2006 Workingman Collective created "Five Mile Line", a temporary public work consisting of a five-mile long contractors chalk-line snapped/drawn through the city of Butte, Montana. In 2008 Workingman Collective in partnership with the Shenandoah and Potomac Garden Railway Club exhibited "Synchrony" at the Delaplaine Visual Art Center, Frederick, Maryland. In response to a series of meetings with people from Tenants and Workers United, a prototype for a mobile community center was built as the project "Building a Mobile Community Center, 2009" in Falls Church, Virginia, in collaboration with representatives of the Day Workers of Culmore in Falls Church, The Working Man Collective, and the Floating Lab Collective. In 2011 Workingman Collective exhibited "Prospects and Provisions" at Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. The exhibition installation included an original backpack designed and patented by Trapper Lloyd F. Nelson in 1924 (U.S. patent #1,505,661). The backpack served as the launching point for Workingman Collective's creation of a variety of provisions for the modern adventurer, including seven custom designed backpacks based on the original Trapper Nelson patent. The exhibition also included "Swing", a steel swing w/wooden bench covered with a selection of plants from Environmental Scientist Bill Woverton's study on plants that clean the air of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and "Table, a custom work table and seating with a G scale train traveling on an overhead elevated oval track.