| J. Kim Sessums | |
| Birth Name: | Joey Kim Sessums |
| Nationality: | American |
Joey Kim Sessums[1] is an American artist and physician, best known for his sculptures. Sessums resides in Brookhaven, Mississippi.[2]
Sessums earned his medical degree at the University of Mississippi.[3] The University later installed his six-foot statue of University of Mississippi football coach Johnny Vaught on the campus.[4]
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.[5] [6]
Sessums' sculptures of Wyeth, Eudora Welty and Billy Graham were parts of those individuals' personal collections.[3]
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.[3] [7]
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.[8]
Sessums has four children with his wife, Kristy.[9] His daughter, also named Joey Sessums, is a pediatric dentist.[10] Though he is best known as an artist, he maintains his medical practice.[3] His brother is writer Kevin Sessums.[11]