Awards
IPPY Award – Rockpeople: Beyond Chester Creek
Eric Hoffer Award for Short Prose & Independent Books
Category: Art – First Runner-Up : “Rockpeople
The Eric Hoffer Award for short prose and books was established at the start of the 21st century as a means of opening a door to writing of significant merit. It honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers.
Inuksuk is a stone marker built by humans, most notably Inuit and other Arctic peoples. Carter, who is director of a palliative care program in Minnesota, practices the art form as a spiritual path of discovery and healing. He is fully engaged with life and ever-curious about the journey. Beyond Chester Creek is the second book in the Rockpeople series. The wonder of his pictures and text is often the continuity and insight, rather than providing pat answers that are often not useful in the future. Opening this chapbook-sized collection to any page provides the restorative of beauty and occasional humor.
2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards– IPPY Award
Category – Inpsiration/Spirituality Bronze : Rockpeople: Beyond Chester Creek
– The Independent Publisher Book Awards were conceived in 1996 as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry. The awards are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of exemplary independent, university, and self-published titles produced each year, and reward those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing.
Winnipeg ‘Best Seller’ – Rockpeople: Beyond Chester Creek
Artist – Sculpture:
People Choice Award 3rd – Edina Sculpture Exhibition
‘The Healing’ : source material – rock stone from the American southwest, Lake Superior rock, field rock, Uruguay rock-bricks.
Accepted by City of Edina as a permanent donation to Edina Sculpture Promenade:
Edina sculptures more than meets the eye
Reviews
The Mindful World
Healing, Dying
BEA New Title Showcase
The Combined Book Exhibition
Rock Solid Impassionation
Dr. Joel Carter : Impassionation Blog – by David Hoffman
What the Press is Saying
KSTP TV 5
“On the Road with Jason Davis”
A Walk with the Rock Doc
by Chris Julin, Minnesota Public Radio
Sculpting spirituality – A Duluth doctor finds art and healing in the rocks of Chester Creek
By Linda Hanson, staff writer