Kristin Mitsu Shiga is a hapa metalsmith, educator and arts administrator who has played a variety of roles in the arts since 1992. Throughout her career, Kristin's desire to strike balance between her individual studio practice and working as part of a larger team allowed her to build an unusual skillset that includes everything from nonprofit arts administration and grantwriting to armature-building for stop-motion animation studios.

She has worked nationally as Education Director for the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG), and regionally as VP of Continuing Education and Community Programs at Oregon College of Art & Craft, where she also finished her degree in Craft, with a focus on Metalsmithing, Book Arts and Furniture. Since 2020, Kristin has been focused on providing educational access to a diverse online community of artists and lifelong learners as the Virtual Program Director for Metalwerx in Waltham, Massachusetts.

As a maker, Kristin pursues projects that tell a story and actively engage her audience. Her solo work centers around one-of-a-kind wearable art and holloware with an aesthetic that has been described as a "marriage between her Japanese heritage and influences from her early explorations in architecture and the Modernist design movement."

Kristin has shown her work internationally, and is included in several notable collections, including the Kamm Artful Teapot Collection and the Permanent Collection of the White House.