Randi Bachman joined the Center in 2025 as a Collections Interpreter and is responsible for conducting specility tours of the Smith House (and its ceramics), Saarinen House, and the entire Cranbrook campus. Randi is a multidisciplinary artist who engages ceramic materiality, exploring expressions of memory and monument through experimental processes. Randi earned a BFA in Ceramics from Kansas City Art Institute. She is the recipient of the Ernest A Jones Scholarship, 2022 Regina Brown Fellowship, the Glenn C. Nelson Scholarship, the Ken Ferguson Scholarship, the McKeown Award and the Cynthia and Edwina Bringle Scholarship. She has exhibited her work nationally – recently at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City, UT) Arc Gallery (Chicago, IL), Visual Arts Center (Richmond, VA), Forum Gallery (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Vulpes Bastille (Kansas City, MO), DAAP Galleries (Cincinnati, OH), Belger Arts Center (Kansas City, MO), and Drewlowe Gallery (Iowa City, IA). Randi is a nomadic midwesterner and is currently a second year MFA graduate in the Ceramics Program at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.