Green-Wood President To Receive Fine Arts Federation Award

Congratulations are in order for Green-Wood Cemetery president, Richard J. Moylan, who is scheduled to receive the The Fine Arts Federation Award on Thursday, May 30, to honor his work in securing Green-Wood as one of the city’s most influential cultural destinations.

Through more than 40 years at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, serving as President since 1986, Richard J. Moylan has transformed Green-Wood into an important public green space and cultural destination. He opened its gates for educational tours, art exhibits, lectures, book readings, dramatic productions, concerts, and other events that draw on the cemetery’s great historical significance and natural beauty. Importantly, under Mr. Moylan’s tenure, the Green-Wood Historic Fund was created to maintain the cemetery’s monuments and buildings of historical, cultural, and architectural significance, as well as an expanding outdoor sculpture garden that includes the noted recent acquisition Civic Virtue. Last year alone, more than 250,000 people took advantage of these offerings, testimony to Mr. Moylan’s visionary cultivation of Green-Wood as a 478-acre civic asset.

Photo by Brian Wise