CHRA’s HajYahia and Haddad Awarded 2026 NYSCA Grant
Photo by Basel Abbas
CHRA Associate Curator and MA program alumnus Adam HajYahia and Artist-in-Residence Haitham Haddad have been named as co-recipients of the 2026 Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). The NYSCA grants are intended to increase access to arts funding and recognize the substantial economic and social impact of New York State’s arts and culture sector.
HajYahia and Haddad’s award is in support of a film work as part of a collaborative research project they’re developing together. A lover is one who waits contemplates the aesthetics and politics of time and labor as they figure within settler-colonial economies. The work focuses on Palestinian construction workers and sex workers and the ways in which they are captured within colonial-racial regimes of extractive violence. By deploying documentary and fiction devices, A lover is one who waits seeks to use images from the Palestinian day-to-day into surreal montages that articulate a new understanding of native labor and settler time.
The NYSCA grant for A lover is one who waits is facilitated and produced by BOFFO, NY.
Post Date: 01-07-2026
HajYahia and Haddad’s award is in support of a film work as part of a collaborative research project they’re developing together. A lover is one who waits contemplates the aesthetics and politics of time and labor as they figure within settler-colonial economies. The work focuses on Palestinian construction workers and sex workers and the ways in which they are captured within colonial-racial regimes of extractive violence. By deploying documentary and fiction devices, A lover is one who waits seeks to use images from the Palestinian day-to-day into surreal montages that articulate a new understanding of native labor and settler time.
The NYSCA grant for A lover is one who waits is facilitated and produced by BOFFO, NY.
Post Date: 01-07-2026
