Quinton "Q.J." Stephenson was born in 1920 and lived all his life in North Carolina, except for a time during the Depression when he worked in the redwoods of northern California. He was a drag line operator for a construction company for forty years, and also a trapper. He retired in the 1970's, and began building an environment called Occoneechee Trapper's Lodge made of petrified wood, fossils, Civil War relics, Indian artifacts, and other finds from his trapping days, all embedded in cement with which he covered his interior and exterior walls. In 1981 he began making freestanding sculptures using the same methods and materials and developed the museum for displaying his art and found objects. Q.J. passed away in 1997 and although his museum is still there, whether or not it will be opened again to visitors has not been determined. Q.J.'s widow still lives on the property at this time. Stephenson's work has been exhibited since 1988 at such places as the High Museum of Art. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of American Art, the Mobile Museum of Art and the Kentucky Folk Art Center.

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