Eve Sperling

Eve Sperling is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and is a participant in the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. In the 2024–2025 academic year, she was also a NEH/VSRI Seminar Graduate Fellow. Eve’s work is centered on the art and visual culture of late medieval and early modern Northern Europe. Her current research studies the impact that cross-media collaboration and the organization of artisanal labor had on conceptions of picture-making in the 16th century. She is particularly interested in how these themes appear in the relationship between tapestry and painting. Before attending USC, Eve received her BA in Studio Art from Pitzer College and completed her MA in The History of Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. More recently, she won a Kress Fellowship to attend the German School at Middlebury College. Eve has worked in a variety of art institutions, and in 2023 served as Adrienne Arsht Intern in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

• MA New York University
• BA Pitzer College