Nationality American Name J. Sessums | Role Physician | |
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Full Name Joey Kim Sessums | ||
"A Forty Year Retrospective of the Art of J. Kim Sessums" - Art Exhibition
Joey Kim Sessums is an American artist and physician, best known for his sculptures. Sessums resides in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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Sessums earned his medical degree at the University of Mississippi. The University later installed his six-foot statue of University of Mississippi football coach Johnny Vaught on the campus.
Andrew Wyeth offered to pose for Sessums. When the sculpture was finished, Wyeth remarked,
We've done it. I think we've really got something here. This is why I waited. The other works just didn't have the bite yours does.
Sessums' sculptures of Wyeth, Eudora Welty and Billy Graham were parts of those individuals' personal collections.
Sessums was honored with a Mississippi Senate resolution in 2004 for his work on the then recently dedicated African-American Monument in the Vicksburg National Military Park, commissioned by the National Park Service.
Sessums sculpted the Cellular South Howell Trophy, which is given to the top four-year college men's basketball player in Mississippi. He also sculptured the Cellular South Gillom Trophy, which is given to the top four-year college women's basketball player in Mississippi.
Personal life
Sessums has four children with his wife, Kristy. His daughter, also named Joey Sessums, is a pediatric dentist. Though he is best known as an artist, he maintains his medical practice. His brother is writer Kevin Sessums.