Gig Harbor is a quiet suburban community, known largely for a kickass shopping mall with a Blazing Onion Burger Company and that movie theater with the seats that shake you around. But did you also know it's fairly swimming with talented artists in a wide variety of media? Of course you did. You're smart like that. But what you may not know is that once a year since 1993, dozens of these artists open their studios to casual passersby. We're talking serious talents here, like ceramicists Ron Carson and Jana Fisher, oil painter Dianne Gardner and watercolor artist Kate Larsson; 32 in all, from 28 different studios on a grand driving tour of the city.  It's a veritable orgy for your eyeballs. Click on the website address below for more information, including a map.

[Greater Gig harbor area, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., ggharboropenstudiotour.org]