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We welcome you to visit Green-Wood! We’re open 365 days a year, at no charge. PLEASE NOTE: The Cemetery will close early on Thursday, June 6th, for a private event. The Main Entrance and Sunset Park Entrances will close at 5pm and the Fort Hamilton Parkway and Prospect Park West Entrances will close at 6pm. … Read more
In 2021, Green-Wood’s Artist-in-Residence program was created for emerging and mid-career artists to directly engage with the site’s unique art, history, and nature. Since its founding in 1838, the Cemetery has inspired generations of painters, writers, and musicians. The artist selected for this program will continue in that rich tradition of creative expression. For more … Read more
The inaugural Green-Wood History Fellowship provides a selected awardee with an unprecedented nine-month engagement with the Cemetery’s rich resources: a 478-acre historic landscape with an unparalleled collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century monuments and mausoleums, alongside expansive institutional archives dating back to the 1830s. This fellowship is open to current graduate students or early-career scholars (no … Read more
PRESENTED BY NAMING THE LOST MEMORIALS, CITY LORE, GREAT SMALL WORKS, MANO A MANO, AND THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY May 3rd – June 3rd, 2024 “Everyone is holding so much grief right now, and it’s so hard, but it’s kind of created this bigger, slower, majestic space to be real with what’s going on and organize … Read more
PLEASE NOTE: We aim to welcome everyone to this event, however capacity for Green-Wood’s Meadow and Historic Chapel is limited. Should maximum capacity be reached, we will need to limit access to both areas including any associated activities and artist activations. Scroll down for further details. On April 8, 2024 join us to slow down, … Read more
Green-Wood is pleased to announce the selection of our 2024 Research Fellows! The 2024 fellowship is presented in partnership with Perfect Earth Project. Learn more in this press release. The Green-Wood Research Fellowship Award in Urban Environmental Science provides support for emerging investigators to conduct original research that utilizes the landscape and collections of The … Read more
Gather around, one more time, as Rooftop Films celebrates the innovative work of some of their favorite short filmmakers. As always, their Closing Night is full of wistful memories, longing moments, and devastating realizations. Reflect on launching rockets, sad love songs, existential travel, and bingo halls. Come to cry, stay to experience something profound, and … Read more
A Installation by Adam Tendler Join us to Celebrate the opening of Adam Tendler’s Exit Strategy at the Fort Hamilton Gatehouse. This new installation by Tendler, the Cemetery’s 2023-2024 artist in residence, interrogates the complex relationship between grief and personal identity. He creates an immersive environment that meditates on the ways we attach ourselves to memories and … Read more
In a presidential election, there can only be one winner; everyone else is just… a loser. On this final Saturday of the 2024 election cycle, Green-Wood offers a fascinating historical perspective on past campaigns. Discover the ambitions and political upsets of presidential hopefuls like DeWitt Clinton (who lost to Madison in 1812) and Horace Greeley … Read more
Amidst the serene backdrop of weathered gravestones and trees whispering in the wind, this year’s Nightfall invites you to reflect on the fleeting nature of time itself. As dusk settles and darkness fills the cemetery, explore tales of lives lived and moments lost, revel in nostalgia for a grand past, and grieve for all the … Read more
