January is also National Eye Care Month, Hobby Month, Hot Tea Month, Oatmeal Month, Prune the Fat Month and Soup Month.
Flower: Carnation; Gemstone, Garnet.
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All day event
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Unfortunately, the aspirins and the resolutions are due on the same day.
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11:00am - 6:00pm
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The First Saturday of each month Quilcene will has it's Art Walk. Olympic Art Gallery, corner of Hwy 101 and Washington St, The Quilcene Gallery, corner of Hwy 101 and Church St, and Collectables and Local Art, 294773 Hwy 101. All will be open and serving refreshments. The Art Walk will be the first Saturday of each month this year. Also, mark your calendars for the Olympic Art Festival www.olympicartfestival.com May 24 and May 25 at the Olympic Art Gallery. Any questions call Sally Brown at 765-0200 or info@olympicartgallery.com. Come, enjoy the art and refreshments in the village between the Quilcene Rivers!
The Olympic Art Gallery’s Featured Artist for January is Dean Nelson. Dean took up painting and piano playing after he retired as an engineer. Painting was not completely foreign to him as his wife, Beverly, is an artist and he had become her major critic. Beverly's paintings that he least liked seemed to be the first to sell. He found creating the effects he liked in other artist's work more difficult to achieve than he ever imagined. A background in engineering was helpful with perspective but it also bogged him down in endless detail.
Lessons from his wife and workshops with Wanda Mumm, Heiner Hertling, Nicholas Oberling and Stella Canfield helped him grasp the concepts of color, composition, and values. Endless hours of sketching taught him to quickly capture the major elements of a scene.
Dean paints purely for enjoyment, mainly landscapes, and finds himself analyzing a special scene, trying to figure out how best to convey to the viewer the same beauty he sees.
Also, mark your calendars for the Olympic Art Festival www.olympicartfestival.com May 23 and May 24 at the Olympic Art Gallery.
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6:30pm
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The Planning Commission has on their agenda a “side-by-side” review of the main similarities and differences between the performance standards/development regulations of the existing SMP and the Preliminary Draft SMP proposal.
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All day event
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Islamic New Year.
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8:00am - 9:00am
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Chamber Meeting, open to the public, is held at Quilcene Community Center this month.
Nat'l. Mentoring Mo.