Elizabeth Rozmanith ’24 is putting her art history background and her Master of Public Administration degree to work at the Fitchburg Art Museum.

As an artist herself, Rozmanith combined her passions with an interest in nonprofits administration to pursue Clark’s MPA program.

“I’ve always been interested in arts nonprofits, and particularly looking how to make them more relevant and accessible to our communities. Public administration is a great way to be immersed in the art world from a different view of it, and have administrative influence,” she noted.

Within the program, she found inspiration from her cohort.

“It’s the Clark community that I come back to. The people here are amazing, and everyone is so passionate about so many different things.

“In my MPA program, everyone’s focused on different things. Public administration is very broad, but they’re all so passionate about specific issues. It’s inspiring.”

Working at the Fitchburg Art Museum as a grant writer, Rozmanith applied her coursework directly to her role, and used the challenges she observed in her capstone project.

She identified the need to provide outcomes reporting and detailed data to support the museum’s strategic planning. Her capstone work gathered and assessed visitor feedback data.

Her capstone provided a well-researched plan to assess survey feedback, focusing on visitor services, museum members, donor relations, and events. Rozmanith provided best practices and specific implementation recommendations as part of her project.

“I wrapped up my capstone project for Clark. And then the same week, I presented it at a development committee meeting at the museum… [The committee] said they love the idea of surveys and would like to start implementing [my proposal]. It was exciting to get such positive feedback.”