Joe Blades

1961-2020

Joseph ("Joe") Blades was born on 29 August 1961 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Late in 1964, he moved from Elmsdale to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and graduated from Prince Andrew High School in 1979 and in 1988, he graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) in Halifax, where he obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He was a poet as well as the president of Broken Jaw Press, a publishing company located in Fredericton, New Brunswick which he started in 1984.  In 1987 he moved to New York for four months to undertake a Curatorial Internship at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and he started New Muse of Contempt magazine, and wrote poems later published in a chapbook titled Tribeca (1998). In 2008, he received a certificate in Film and Television through the New Brunswick Filmmakers' Co-Operative.  In 2012, Blades earned his Master’s in education at the University of New Brunswick. Up until his death on 22 April 2020 he continued to run Broken Jaw Press, publishing new titles every year.  Also a radio show host, Blades had won awards for his radio programme on CHSR 97.9 FM.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton

Archival Material

• Joe Blades fonds
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  Location

  University of New Brunswick Archives & Special Collections

  Website/Catalogue Record

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  Retrieval Number

  MG L 57

  Date Range of Material

  [ca. 1971]-2020

  Extent

  32.4 m textual records
  ca. 1000 photographs ; col. and b&w ; 62 x 83 cm and smaller
  ca. 85 computer disks
  ca. 5 audio reels
  ca. 260 audio cassettes
  ca. 4 DVDs
  ca. 19 videocassettes
  ca. 440 CD-ROMs

  Scope and Content Note

  Fonds consists of correspondence, works of art, manuscripts, publications, photographs related to Blades' personal life and business life as a publisher and artist in Halifax, NS, and Fredericton, NB. Of interest are his journals, which he kept on a daily basis.