Caroline Kajorinne (HBFA) is a multidisciplinary artist and facilitative arts administrator. She is from Pike Lake, a Finnish settler community located 25 km north of Thunder Bay | Animikii Wekwedong, in Northwest Ontario. She is drawn towards blacksmithing as it is a creative practice that employs all of the elements—water, air, earth and fire. For Carol, the artform is a way to centre and strengthen relationship — with the natural world, with her body, and the themes that guide her work.

In 2012 she was awarded an OAC Northern Arts grant for the "Preserving Harold Project," which was part of a two-person exhibition "Preservation | Desire to Fill" at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery (2015), and toured through Manitoba Arts Network (2016-17). She is an active member of numerous groups/collectives, and is a founding member of Guild of Northwestern Ontario Metalsmiths’ (2013). Since 2018, she has been developing an arts collective, “mindful makers,” led for + by artists/makers with mental health and/or addiction experiences in Thunder Bay. 

Caroline instructs Intermediate and senior Drawing at Lakehead University and has been learning blacksmithing since 2012, when she launched her creative side hustle: Pike Lake Forge. Her former partner, Kristen "Krev" Krievin was actively part of the business from 2012 until 2024, when they decided to part ways.