(de)Appropriation Project Archive
Exhibitions
2009
"Cultural Encounters," deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, year-long monthly events related to Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo, (de)Appropriation Project.
2008
"(de)Appropriation Project Archive," Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, interactive database installation and web site.
2005
"Altered Practice," American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, CA, group show.
2004
"AD 2004," The Lab, San Francisco, CA, group show.
"New Work," Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, group show.
Lectures
2006
"Before and After Architecture," Architecture Lecture Series, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
"Before and After Architecture," Architecture Lecture Series, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2003
"(de) Appropriation Project," Curatorial Practice Seminar for Glen Helfand, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2002
"Graffiti Re-appropriation," lecture, Collideoscope, IDSA 2002 National Conference, Monterey, CA.
Awards
2015
Individual Artist Commissions, San Francisco Arts Commission for A memorial to free speech, " parklet."
2006
Nominee for 2005 Precita Eyes Mural Awareness, Special Recognition, "Free Speech Wall."
2003
San Francisco Bay Guardian, Best of the Bay, "Best Cop Shop Conversion."
Publications
2015
"Art Wall Opens Debate," By Cristiano Valli and Lydia Chavez, August 2.
"SNAP: Let the Debate Begin," By Lydia Chavez, July 23.
2011
"With the Soul of a Human Rainbow: Los Siete, Black Panthers, and Third Worldism in San Francisco," by Dr. Jason M. Ferreira, a book chapter, pp. 30- 47, in the book "Ten Years that Shook the City," edited by Chris Carlsson.
"My Mission: Bruce Tomb," Interview by Heather Smith,, January.
2010
"Infinite City," Solnit, Rebecca, University of California Press, pp 141, 146.
2009
"Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo," edited by Jacoby, Annice, Abrams, pp 210-213.
2008
"(de)Appropriation Project, Bruce Tomb and the Valencia Street Wall," Aimee Le Duc, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Issue 6, pp 62-69.
"Resistance is futile -- or is it?" San Francisco Bay Guardian, Steven Jones, March 19.
"An Orange Brick in the Wall," SF Weekly, Andy Wright, March 19-25, p. 9.
"(de)Appropriation Project Archive," San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 20, p. 22.
"(de)Appropriation Project Archive," Exposure, Jordan Geiger, No. 1.
"Interview with Bruce Tomb," Artslant, Rack Room, February.
2006
2005
"Ghosts of a Lost City," San Francisco Chronicle, Insight Section F, Rebecca Solnit, July 3, p. 1.
"Police station turns into wall of free speech/Symbol of conformity turns into radical sounding board," San Francisco Chronicle, Insight Section F, by Shadi Rahimi, July 3, pp. 1-3.
"He can see the writing on the wall" by Steve Portigal in Portigal Consulting Blog
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