The Yorkshire Arts Association (YAA) was a registered charity founded in 1970, with the goal of fostering the arts in the English county of
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other Eng ...
. It was merged into
Yorkshire and Humberside Arts in 1991.
The association was known for funding film and video productions,
funding 48 films from 1970 to 1986. Its headquarters was in
Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...
, West Yorkshire.
The performance art group
COUM Transmissions
COUM Transmissions was a music and performance art collective who operated in the United Kingdom from 1969 through to 1976. The collective was influenced by the Dada and surrealism artistic movements, the writers of the Beat Generation, and underg ...
, a precursor of the band
Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group formed in 1975 in Kingston upon Hull by Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson, and Chris Carter (British musician), Chris Carter. They are widely regarded as pi ...
, were granted a small Experimental Arts Grant by the YAA.
See also
* ''
New Yorkshire Writing
''New Yorkshire Writing'' was a British literary quarterly which briefly gained one of the largest circulations of what is commonly called a "little magazine", distributed as a supplement in 13,000 copies of ''The Month In Yorkshire'', the arts l ...
''
References
Arts councils of the United Kingdom
Arts organisations based in England
Arts organizations established in 1970
Arts organizations disestablished in 1991
1970 establishments in England
1991 disestablishments in England
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