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 exhibitions: Intuition at the Clear Lake Art Center and at the Charles City Arts Center in 2023, Regain at the Chidima Gallery in 2019; JoAnn Schnabel & UNI Ceramics Alumni 1990-2021 at the UNI Gallery of Art in 2021; the Octagonal: The All Media Exhibit at the Octagon Center for the Arts in 2018; Topeka Competition 33 at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery in 2017; and Fresh Work at the Arts Center of Saint Peter in 2017. 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 exhibitions: Intuition at the Clear Lake Art Center and at the Charles City Arts Center in 2023, Regain at the Chidima Gallery in 2019; JoAnn Schnabel & UNI Ceramics Alumni 1990-2021 at the UNI Gallery of Art in 2021; the Octagonal: The All Media Exhibit at the Octagon Center for the Arts in 2018; Topeka Competition 33 at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery in 2017; and Fresh Work at the Arts Center of Saint Peter in 2017. Madalyn's abstract ceramic sculptures often take on imaginative alien plant forms, which derive from nature.