[5] He administered VCU exchange programs with art and design schools in Finland, India, Israel and Korea.
Seipel strove to transfer that multi-disciplinary success to the graduate program and to put additional focus on incorporating new technological equipment and training into the education of artists.
[16] In 2017 Seipel served as the Interim Dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
In 1999 Joe Seipel's biographical installation piece 18,621 Days at 1708 gallery in Richmond received a Critic's Choice award for public art.
Additional photos and commentary by Seipel are included in a 2016 published history of Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts' Anderson Gallery edited by Ashley Kistler.
[24] In 2014 Seipel and architect Steven Holl participated in the ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Institute of Contemporary Art in Richmond.
[34] The VCU Brand Center produced five Vimeo video interviews with Joseph Seipel, each addressing a different question posed to him.
[40] In December 2018, Seipel was named a Richmond Times Dispatch person of the year for his service to the arts community.