Joseph H. Seipel, an American sculptor and conceptual artist, was dean of the VCU School of the Arts, ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the Number 1 public university graduate arts program in the United States. He was a member of the VCU faculty for over 40 years, leaving briefly for several years to serve as administrative dean at the Savannah College of Art and Design. As Dean of VCU arts, he also had oversight of VCU arts in Doja, Qatar. He retired in 2016 to work on his unfinished sculpture projects.