Senior Project Manager & Exhibit Artist (Retired)

American Museum of Natural History

 

Artist, naturalist, and author Stephen C. Quinn has spent a lifetime exploring the natural world and working in a career at the intersection of art and science. Quinn joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in 1974, after graduating from the Ridgewood School of Art and Design, where he apprenticed under such diorama-art masters as Raymond deLucia, Robert Kane, and David J. Schwendeman. His assignments spanned from foreground artist to Senior Project Manager for Exhibitions at the museum, where he oversaw all aspects of new diorama creation including field expeditions, exhibit fabrication, and installation, as well as diorama conservation and restoration.  He was a project leader for the 1995 field expedition to the Central African Republic, which resulted in the rain forest diorama in the museum’s Hall of Biodiversity and was a project manager for the 2003 renovation of the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. Mr. Quinn is a published illustrator, and author of Windows on Nature: The Great Habitat Dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History (2006), the most definitive book ever published on the museum’s world-renowned dioramas. He is a member of the Society of Animal Artists and Artists for Conservation.