Press Release
Artist Bio
Sponsorship
Location

mixed media installation

May 17 - June 23, 2002

Brooklyn Public Library
(Central Library, Grand Army Plaza)

Inspired by Betty Crocker's proclamation that "pies are distinctly American," Anissa Mack's Pies for a Passerby was an interactive installation that brought a quaint cottage to the bustling plaza of the Brooklyn Public Library. Complete with all of the necessary kitchen tools, including an oven, Mack baked fresh apple pies from scratch inside the tiny cottage; and engaged viewers in conversation while she rolled pie crusts, sliced apples and mixed ingredients. Mack set the pies to cool on the window sill, tempting passersby to "steal" the freshly baked apple pie.

Artist Bio
Anissa Mack has had solo exhibitions at Parlour Projects and Ten in One Gallery project room, both in New York, and has been included in group exhibitions at Art in General, Bellwether Gallery, Postmasters Gallery and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center also in New York. She received a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA in sculpture from Tyler School of Art, and later studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Sponsorship
Pies for a Passerby is a project of the Public Art Fund, commissioned through In the Public Realm, a program of site specific proposals and projects by New York artists.

In the Public Realm is supported with public funds by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President, and with generous support from, The Greenwall Foundation, The Silverweed Foundation, The JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and friends of the Public Art Fund.

Pies for a Passerby was made possible with the cooperation and support of the Brooklyn Public Library.

Location
Pies for a Passerby was located on the plaza of the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library at Grand Army Plaza.