Joe Seipel's guest appearances

Joe Seipel

Foreground/Background with Noah Scalin

Rob Tarbell

Jesse Smith

Jennifer Egan

Jonathan Mann

Taraka Larson

Ika Vantiani

Terry Border

Sarah Cameron

Jenny Kendler

Matt Bilfield

Eva Rocha

Pallavi Sen

George Ferrandi

Mica Scalin

Alfonso Pérez Acosta

OwlTail

Joe Seipel is a sculptor and conceptual artist who served as a Virginia Commonwealth University faculty member for over 40 years, including 17 years as chair of the sculpture department, 8 ½ years as the Senior Associate Dean of the School of the Arts. And in 2018 even returned from retirement to spend a year as the interim director of VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art (not to mention a two year stint as vice president at Savannah College of Art and Design). Now a professor emeritus, Joe has returned to a studio art practice. His work is monumental in scale and ranges from conceptually-based objects to multimedia pieces and robotics. His work has been shown internationally including  exhibitions in New York City, Peru, Milan, Baltimore, and of course Richmond, Virginia.  In this hour long conversation we discuss: fine art education, grad school, job opportunities, goals, retirement, and more!Foreground/Background is a conversation between working artists – pulling back the curtain on the real day-to-day efforts that go into making a living from our passions and the realities of dealing with the art word.Noah on Patreon: patreon.com/noahscalinMusic by Jantrax: https://soundcloud.com/jantr4x--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.  https://anchor.fm/app

Joe Seipel is a sculptor and conceptual artist who served as a Virginia Commonwealth University faculty member for over 40 years, including 17 years as chair of the sculpture department, 8 ½ years as the Senior Associate Dean of the School of the Arts. And in 2018 even returned from retirement to spend a year as the interim director of VCU’s Institute for Contemporary Art (not to mention a two year stint as vice president at Savannah College of Art and Design). Now a professor emeritus, Joe has returned to a studio art practice. His work is monumental in scale and ranges from conceptually-based objects to multimedia pieces and robotics. His work has been shown internationally including exhibitions in New York City, Peru, Milan, Baltimore, and of course Richmond, Virginia. In this hour long conversation we discuss: fine art education, grad school, job opportunities, goals, retirement, and more! Foreground/Background is a conversation between working artists – pulling back the curtain on the real day-to-day efforts that go into making a living from our passions and the realities of dealing with the art word. Noah on Patreon: <a href="http://patreon.com/noahscalin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/noahscalin</a> Music by Jantrax: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jantr4x" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/jantr4x</a> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/app</a>

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