2026 Lifetime Achievement & Legacy Awards
CLOSING NIGHT
Sunday, Nov. 8th | 6pm
Rowland Theatre
Award Ceremony
Reception by Brown Dog
Music by La Fiesta Band
Join us to honor Nashormeh Lindo and Delroy Lindo while we celebrate our filmmakers who win our jury awards. The evening is hosted in conjunction with Happy Valley Latin Fest and Brown Dog Catering and features local bites, performance artists and music by La Fiesta Band.
The Lifetime Achievement Award honors Delroy Lindo, an acclaimed director and actor celebrated for his commanding presence and powerful storytelling on stage and screen.
The Chandler Living Legacy Award will honor Nashormeh Lindo, a visual artist, arts advocate, educator, and Penn State alumna.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Delroy Lindo
Delroy Lindo is an Academy Award nominated artist who has earned numerous accolades throughout his illustrious career.
In film, he’s been awarded Best Actor by the New York Film Critics Circle, National Society of Film Critics and Critics Choice Super Awards in addition to receiving career tributes from the Gotham Awards and Santa Barbara Film Festival.
On Broadway, Delroy received a Tony award nomination for his portrayal of “Herald Loomis” in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; a Helen Hayes Award Nomination and a NAACP Image Award for Best Actor playing Walter Lee in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun.
Delroy is also known for his many collaborations with filmmaker Spike Lee (notably in Da 5 Bloods), and the widespread recognition he garnered for his work in Ryan Coogler’s critical and commercial smash-hit Sinners (earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor).
Delroy recently made his directorial debut with the feature Jabari’s People and will next be seen starring in the upcoming Godzilla v. Kong sequel for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures. Lindo is also the recipient of honorary doctorates from both Fisk University and San Francisco State University.
Chandler Living Legacy Award
Nashormeh N.R. Lindo
Philadelphia native Nashormeh N.R. Lindo is an artist, educator, curatorial programming consultant, and arts advocate. She holds a B.A. in Art from Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in Museum Leadership from Bank Street College of Education.
Lindo has worked as an Arts and Crafts specialist in several communities and taught art in the Philadelphia Public Schools. After receiving a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Arts Management, she joined the Baltimore Museum of Art as Coordinator of Community Services on its Education staff. She later managed educational and school programs at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. Formerly an adjunct instructor of African American Art History at City College of San Francisco, she also enjoys making art with children.
In her art practice, Lindo explores heritage, history, literature, travel, family, and the environment through mixed media. Her recent work examines how media inform one another, combining assemblage, collage, painting, digital
photography, computer-assisted design, drawing, and printmaking. She uses these compositions as surface designs on paper, canvas, wood, metal, and textiles. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She has lectured and consulted on exhibition programs for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, SFMOMA, and the Oakland Museum of California, among others, and has written essays on Black American art, history, and culture. Poetry is also part of her creative work.
Lindo served on the California Arts Council from 2014 to 2021, including three years as its first African American woman chair. She helped shape policies and grant guidelines. She lives and works in the Bay Area with her husband, actor Delroy Lindo, and their son, Damiri.
Lindo is currently a Penn State dual-title PhD candidate in Art Education and Africana Studies.