That organization evolved into The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international grant-making foundation that focuses on making lasting changes in the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people through four program areas: aging, children and youth, reconciliation and human rights, and population health, in the United States, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Vietnam, Australia and Bermuda. In 1982 Feeney created The Atlantic Foundation, a charitable organization charged with distributing the greater part of his wealth. In 1996, Feeney sold his interest in DFS to LVMH Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. The dinner and awards ceremony will follow.įeeney co-founded Duty Free Shoppers (DFS) in 1960, and it quickly became a global retail empire and grew to be the largest travel retailer in the world. The event will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. The awards dinner features a gathering of the world's most influential hospitality and travel leaders coming together to support scholarships and programs at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration (SHA). Feeney is co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers and founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies Kerzner is founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Kerzner International. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship's 2010 Hospitality Innovator Award. The event will honor Chuck Feeney '56 as the 2010 Icon of the Industry and Solomon Kerzner as the recipient of the Leland C. He hopes that we all and always “Stay inspired and stay true”.More than 800 guests will gather for the second annual Cornell Icon of the Industry Awards Dinner June 8 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. When he is rarely working he is a deeply loving partner, mentor to Louise, doggy playing, adventure glamping sexual, backyard hosting, hot tub championing, big ocean sniffing, river raging, family bonding and nature loving man who has a big thirst of everything and loves nothing more than sharing all his entire being with amazing human beings. He is regularly involved and donates to non profits, charities and volunteers numerous hours for his community, people in need and making this world a better place than how he found it. He was awarded “Best in Show” for his senior thesis project and is one of only seven distinguished alumni from 2000-2010. He has exhibited nationally in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago, Denver, Austin, Miami, Portland and Seattle, and internationally in Tokyo, Germany and Canada,įontana has been commissioned for and designed and licensed work for a number of companies and organizations including TEDx, VANS, adidas, ZERO+ Publishing, FELT Bicycles, Umpqua Bank, Breakside Brewery, Ninkasi Brewing, SCION, Redley, Patagonia, Nike, Toyota, City of Portland/Denver/Salem, P.E.A.R., Kid Robot, Upper Playground, Quiksilver, Ocean Pacific and Arbor Sports.īlaine Fontana received his BFA in Communication Art/Design from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, CA in 2002. ![]() His works have been published in a variety of publications, including VNA, Paper Sea, iDN, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, My Name Is, Sycamore Review, Soul Pancake, and Mod Art. Straddling the physical and metaphysical, organic and architectural, painterly and graphic sensibilities, Blaine fuses multiple visual strategies to forge an aesthetic language entirely of his own making. Fontana’s work displays a virtuosic understanding of sign & simulacra and their role within our contemporary visual culture. Imbuing his vision with the divine symbolism of religious myths, worldly folklore and current social dynamics, his works contain a kind of shamanic exploration of meaning that recognizes the totemic quality and power of the image. Blaine Fontana currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
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