Biography

Madalyn (Loring) Vorrie is a ceramic artist and art educator from Des Moines, IA. She is currently an art teacher at Clarion-Goldfield-Dows High School. Madalyn received her BFA in ceramics and BA in art education-painting from the University of Northern Iowa in 2017. She was an artist in residence at the Iowa Ceramic Center and Glass Studio in 2018-2019. Madalyn was also an emerging artist at the Marion Arts Festival in 2019 and the Des Moines Arts Festival in 2017. Her work has been in many exhibitions, most recently her solo exhibition: Regain at the Chidima Gallery; JoAnn Schnabel & UNI Ceramics Alumni 1990-2021 at the UNI Gallery of Art; the Octagonal: The All Media Exhibit at the Octagon Center for the Arts; Topeka Competition 33 at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery; and Fresh Work at the Arts Center of Saint Peter. Madalyn's abstract ceramic sculptures often take on imaginative alien plant forms, which derive from nature.
Madalyn (Loring) Vorrie is a ceramic artist and art educator from Des Moines, IA. She is currently an art teacher at Clarion-Goldfield-Dows High School. Madalyn received her BFA in ceramics and BA in art education-painting from the University of Northern Iowa in 2017. She was an artist in residence at the Iowa Ceramic Center and Glass Studio in 2018-2019. Madalyn was also an emerging artist at the Marion Arts Festival in 2019 and the Des Moines Arts Festival in 2017. Her work has been in many exhibitions, most recently her solo exhibition: Regain at the Chidima Gallery; JoAnn Schnabel & UNI Ceramics Alumni 1990-2021 at the UNI Gallery of Art; the Octagonal: The All Media Exhibit at the Octagon Center for the Arts; Topeka Competition 33 at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery; and Fresh Work at the Arts Center of Saint Peter. Madalyn's abstract ceramic sculptures often take on imaginative alien plant forms, which derive from nature.