Cordelia Xie

Manga Artist
Iolani School, Honolulu, Hawaii

News

• Cordelia attends Princeton University and starts taking a painting class there. See her recent oil painting "Floor"(9/13/12)
• Cordelia won the best editorial cartoon award in the 2012 Hawaii State High School Journalism Awards. The manga piece entitled APEC originally appeared in the 15 December 2011 issue of Imua Iolani. The judge wrote, "It is easy to immediately understand both what the cartoon is about as well as which side the artist is on." (4/27/12)
• Cordelia won a Gold Key for her art portfolio, and three Gold Keys for three individual art pieces, the most in the Hawai'i regional of the 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. She won two additional Silver Keys. (2/5/12)
• Cordelia received the inaugural Hon-Chew Hee Art Scholarship for artistic exellence, one of only two scholarships awarded by the Hawai'i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. (2/5/12)
• Cordelia's art work is on exhibit at the Hawai'i State Art Museum until March 30. The admission is free. Her oil painting Glasses, mixed media Woman on Huangtai Road and Afterschool Snack won Gold Keys; mixed media Fisherman boats in Laoshan, and oil Marketplace won Silver Keys. (2/5/12)
• Cordelia started AP studio art in her senior year. Boats in Laoshan is a mixed-media piece she recently finished. (12/12/11)
• Cordelia won full scholarship to attend the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation summer seminar at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. See an oil painting of a live model from the 2-week seminar and a newspaper report. (7/18/11)
• Cordelia won the best editorial cartoon award in the 2011 Hawaii State High School Journalism Awards. The manga piece entitled "Evolution of the Iolani dresscode" originally appeared in the 20 October 2010 issue of Imua Iolani. (5/20/11)
• Cordelia's print, Table Top, won a Gold Key Award in the Hawai'i regional of the 2011 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the nation's largest, most prestigious recognition program for creative teenagers in visual and literary arts in grade 7-12. (2/5/11)
• Imua Iolani, Iolani School's newspaper, features Cordie's Corner. The latest piece in the cartoon column is Three little pigs. (12/21/09)
• Hawaii Department of Education commissioned Cordelia to provide art illustrations for a Japanese for Kids TV program entitled "Mouse Wedding", which was broadcast in fall 2009 on Channel 56. (12/21/09)
• Cordelia took Chinese brush painting classes in summer 2009. Her practice piece Mudan (Peonys). (12/21/09)
• Cordelia's graphite pencil drawing, Reflection, won a Gold Key Award in the Hawai'i regional of the 2009 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the nation's largest, most prestigious recognition program for creative teenagers in visual and literary arts in grade 7-12. (1/17/09)

Manga Gallery

APEC, Imua Iolani, 12/15/2011 -->Larger image Best editorial cartoon, Hawaii State High School Journalism Awards, 2012

Evolution of the Iolani dresscode, Imua Iolani, 10/20/2010 -->Larger image

Cold 2009-10 winter across the U.S., Imua Iolani, 2/26/2010 -->Larger image

Japanese garden [larger size]
First place, "My Japan" painting contest on "Japanese for Kids" program, Hawaii TV Channel 56, 2009

The Ocean Dream [larger size]
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) International Year of the Reef postcard, 2008

Summer fesival (Matsuri) [larger size]
Second place, Maui Matsuri manga contest, 2008

Sunset beach [larger size]
Second place, Hawaii Telecom Yellowpage Keiki Kids Art Contest "Why I love Hawaii", 2008;
Featured in KHON(FOX 2) TV morning news, 5/28/08

Admission interview for Imua Iolani November 2007 [larger size]
Best illustration, Hawaii High School Newspaper Award, 2008

Girl in the cloud [larger size]
First place, Managa Bento contest, 2008