{"id":343,"date":"2009-03-11T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T10:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes12\/2009\/03\/11\/talking-to-tesla-book-launch\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:25:49","slug":"talking-to-tesla-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/talking-to-tesla-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Tesla Book Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening at 6:30 pm the Springville Museum of Art will celebrate the launching of Alex Bigney&#8217;s book<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> <em>Talking To Tesla, <span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\">The Mirror<\/span> That Is The Door<\/em>. Bigney will also make an announcement about <strong><span class=\"yshortcuts\">The Talking To Tesla Project<\/span><\/strong>, and will unveil the project\u2019s upcoming plans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talking to Tesla was reviewed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistsofutah.org\/15bytes\/09feb\/page5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 2009 edition of 15 Bytes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, attendees will experience the music of renown Celtic performing artists\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkmount.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\">Kirkmount<\/span><\/a>, the music of the multi-ethnic Studio A Childrens\u2019 Choir, directed by award-winning musician\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepointeacademy.com\/staff.html#Gael_Shultz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\">Gael Shults<\/span><\/a>, and a discussion with artist\u00a0<span class=\"yshortcuts\">Kent Wing<\/span>, winner of the 2008 Springville Museum of Art Director\u2019s Award, about the painting Identity that is the cover image of\u00a0<em>Talking To Tesla<\/em>. The event will be moderated by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankmcentire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\">Frank McEntire<\/span><\/a>, artist, writer, curator and former Executive Director of the <span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">Utah Arts Council<\/span> whose body of work \u201cpaints a picture of distinction and unparalleled dedication to the arts\u201d according to gallery owner and critic Ivar Zeile.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Bigney will share a brief reading from <em>Talking To Tesla<\/em> as well as make an announcement about the next steps for <strong>The Talking To Tesla Project<\/strong>. Light refreshments will be served. Signed copies of\u00a0<em>Talking To Tesla<\/em> will be available at the event. The public is invited to attend and can RSVP to <span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">cheryl@snappconner.com<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening at 6:30 pm the Springville Museum of Art will celebrate the launching of Alex Bigney&#8217;s book Talking To Tesla, The Mirror That Is The Door. Bigney will also make an announcement about The Talking To Tesla Project, and will unveil the project\u2019s upcoming plans. Talking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1166],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5","tag-kent-wing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/500.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 21:39:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97249,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/97249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}