Damien Fellows was a Volunteer Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson House in fall semester 2024. Read his thoughts on his experience at the museum.

“It’s just a matter of having two loves,” explained Diana Movius, speaking at The Georgetowner’s Nov. 21 Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the President Woodrow Wilson House in Kalorama. The two: dance and the environment.Founder and artistic director of Moveius Contemporary Ballet — pronounced “MOVE-ee-us” — and of Dance Loft on 14, her company’s base of operations in Petworth, Movius became the second choreographer-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery this year. Read the article about Diana Movius in The Georgetowner.

Speaking at The Georgetowner’s Oct. 24 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, Ryan Brown, artistic director of Opera Lafayette, commented on the coincidental link between the event’s venue, the President Woodrow Wilson House on S Street NW, and the medal he wore. Brown had been awarded the Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel in 2012 by La Renaissance Française, an organization founded in France during Wilson’s presidency to strengthen and extend French culture in the wake of World War I.Read the article about Ryan Brown in The Georgetowner.

Located in the heart of the Nation’s Capital, the Woodrow Wilson House is a National Trust Historic Site that examines the full history of Wilson’s presidency. For Executive Director Elizabeth Karcher, the site strives to be a time capsule that is authentic and presidential. Read the interview with Elizabeth Karcher from the National Trust.

In 2006, his Carnegie Mellon BFA in hand, Matthew Gardiner went to work for Signature Theatre — a 150-seat space in what had been a bumper-plating factory (“The Garage”) on South Four Mile Run Drive in Arlington, Virginia. “We were on an adventure,” he recalled, speaking at The Georgetowner’s Sept. 19 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, held at the President Woodrow Wilson House on S Street NW. Read the article about Matthew Gardiner in The Georgetowner.

During World War I, Woodrow and Edith Wilson wanted to promote the concept of sustainability and garner support behind creating Victory Gardens. They did this by offering to raise sheep (yes, live sheep) on the front lawn of the White House. Read the article from the National Trust about 10 quirky objects at their historic sites.

Washington National Cathedral's Chief Public Affairs Officer, Kevin Eckstrom, interviews noted author and expert, Rebecca Roberts, about the complex legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson and her and President Wilson’s ties to the Cathedral. Both Woodrow and Edith Wilson are buried at Washington National Cathedral. Listen to the podcast episode about this topic.

CaribNation Television covered the Caribbean Heritage Month event, We DeYa 2024, which took place at the President Woodrow Wilson House on June 28, 2024. Wilson House's own Deputy Director, Felice Herman, was interviewed at the event starting at 23:57 in the 30-minute video. Watch the coverage of We De Ya on CaribNation TV here.

In June 2024, the show "Voice of America" interviewed Executive Director Elizabeth Karcher about her inspiration to pursue planting a native garden at the Wilson House. VOA’s Dora Mekouar reports. Camera: Adam Greenbaum. Watch the interview about how the garden of former President Woodrow Wilson’s historic home is being reimagined to accommodate a changing climate.

The Wilson House library is decorated with darkly painted walls and tufted furniture with a fireplace at its center and a large desk at one end. It has the air of a room where someone of Wilson’s significance might entertain important guests—and, in fact, it was. As his health began to fail, Wilson’s personal physician, Dr. Cary Grayson, insisted that he have only one visitor each day, and he often met them at precisely 3:30pm in this library. Read the National Trust for Historic Preservation article about five different libraries at their historic sites.