James L. Seawright

James Seawright (1936 – February 12, 2022) was an American modernist sculptor.

Seawright was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi. As a boy, he discovered machine tools at a friend’s house, which launched his lifelong love of making objects by hand. Later, when serving in the United States Navy, he pursued every available opportunity to work with new tools and materials, gravitating toward the machine shop on his ship and the hobby shops on the base, where he made furniture.