EASTPORT, MAINE.- The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (TIMA) opened its third exhibition of the season featuring a one-person show of work by one of eastern Canada’s foremost printmakers, Dan Steeves. The exhibition will be on view through September 21, 2008. A letter in support of the exhibition by New Brunswick’s Premier Shawn Graham was read at the opening.

Dan Steeves was born in 1959 in Moncton, New Brunswick. He received his B.F.A. from Mount Allison University in 1981. He currently lives in Sackville, New Brunswick where he is Printmaking Instructor and Lecturer in the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University. In 2007, Dan won the prestigious Sheila Hugh McKay Foundation's Strathbutler Award, which honors exceptional artistry in the province.

Steeves' work has been exhibited in galleries in Canada, the United States, Holland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Taiwan and the Ukraine. His prints are represented internationally in both public and private collections including Canadian House, (Nagoya, Japan), Royal Bank, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Regent College, Istituto Per La Cultura E L'Arte, (Catania, Italy), Chernobyl Disaster Museum, (Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR), Canada Council Art Bank, Permanent Collection, University of New Brunswick Art Centre and New Brunswick Art Bank, among others. He is represented by the Abbozzo Gallery of Oakville, Ontario, and the Peter Buckland Gallery of Saint John, New Brunswick. The prints included in this exhibition are on loan from the Peter Buckland Gallery.

Also on view and on loan to TIMA until October is an oil painting by N.C. Wyeth titled, The Little Cockle, originally created to illustrate a passage from the book, The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson.

The Tides Institute is open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Tides Institute and Museum of Art (TIMA) is located in the former Eastport Savings Bank Building, an 1887 National Register of Historic Places anchor property in downtown Eastport, Maine. Open year round, TIMA curates three to four new exhibitions each year, as well as exhibits works from its permanent collections, which focuses on the international Passamaquoddy region and the broader U.S./Canada northeast coast. TIMA operates as a cultural catalyst — acting as a cultural resource, cultural facilitator, and cultural collaborator working with a wide range of partners on both sides of the U.S/Canada border.