Tio Giambruni (1925–1971) was a sculptor and influential member of the first generation of University of California, Davis, art faculty. Born in San Francisco, he studied sculpture at UC Berkeley before joining UC Davis in 1961. Giambruni expanded the educational curriculum of the art department through his metalwork, and became a faculty member in 1961. In 1963, he helped design and construct “The Forge,” located in TB 9. It became the first metal-casting foundry at any educational institution on the West Coast. “The Forge” transformed Giambruni’s artistic practice, prompting him to switch from sculpting small sculptures in magnesite to casting large-scale sculptures in aluminum and bronze. Using the process of bronze casting, he created handmade reproductions of mass-produced objects. An example of his work is located near the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Hall. He fabricated Bum, Bum You’ve Been Here Before at “The Forge” in 1967, hand-welding monumental bronze castings of metal pipes together to reference factory mass production.