About

Sitka Creations was named after the Sitka Spruce and the City of Sitka on Baranof Island in Alaska.

The name Sitka is a native Tlingit word derived from Sheet’ká, a contraction of the Tlingit Shee At’iká and means “People on the Outside of Baranof Island.”
Sitka Creations’ founder was struck by the coastal beauty of this Island and the grace of the Sitka Spruce, while living near coastal Islands in Maine, and decided on this name as a way to give width, breathe and roots to the idea of a design studio, long before a team was built.

Sitka Creations® LLC is a woman-owned and operated design studio that focuses on web development and marketing, with design and branding as a foundation. We connect and collaborate with businesses in the Northeast to create effective visual marketing materials.

Tamar Russell-Brown

Managing Owner

Tamar Russell Brown

A Tennessee native with Hungarian roots, Mrs. Russell Brown’s background is in print design. Her father is a bookbinder and printer in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Mrs. Russell Brown has a certificate in photography from Cumberland University in Tennessee, an associate degree in visual communication from Nashville State Technical Institute, a Bachelor of Arts in design from Rhode Island College and a year abroad at Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem in Budapest, Hungary. Mrs. Russell Brown operates the home studio for Sitka Creations® LLC in Central Massachusetts.

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Diana Tamburri

Illustrator & Social Media Writer

Diana Tamburri

Unlike software-only digital artists, our Illustrator & Social Media Writer Diana Tamburri likes to hand draw illustrations before turning them into digital art. Some Sitka Creations employees even have portraits she’s drawn for them. Her style is so engaging that when she created several drawings of groundhogs for a client to choose from for a social media post, she chose them all.

Diana started interning at Sitka Creations in 2016 and has a BFA in illustration from UMass Dartmouth, but her illustration career goes all the way back to high school when she did the cover illustration for a recipe book. She says she enjoys Sitka Creations’ uniqueness and likes working at a company run by a designer who really understands the creative process.

Diana’s inspired by art that tells stories in visual terms, like the illustrations of Norman Rockwell, classic Looney Tunes cartoons, and her favorite Pixar movie Wall-E. She also likes to design costumes, once going to RI Comic-Con as Disgust from another Pixar movie, Inside Out.

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Raeanne (Rae) Mullet

Web Developer

Raeanne Mullet

Rae Mullet started with Sitka Creations® LLC as an intern in 2019 while completing her bachelor’s degree in Communications Media from Fitchburg State University. While her background doing graphic design for print shops, she discovered she had a natural talent for web design.

As a web developer at Sitka Creations, she builds, maintains, and manages websites for a wide variety of businesses. Known as a creative problem-solver, she enjoys collaborating with clients to figure out the best ways to design their websites and create an optimal user experience. She is proficient in coding and can use many platforms, including WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and good old-fashioned HTML.

A true crime fan and avid crafter who paints, knits, and crochets, Rae has the Jonas Brothers’ song lyric “Take A Breath” tattooed on her arm as a gentle reminder to herself.

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Lesley Pappas

Office Assistant

Lesley Pappas

Lesley helps keep things running at Sitka Creations’ Shirley, MA office, taking care of the mail, keeping the coffee machine running, and making sure the office is fully stocked. She has 7 years of office experience, a background in graphic arts, and previously worked as a secretary until a pandemic layoff. While she enjoyed having some time off, she’s happy to feel useful and takes pleasure in ensuring the details of the office are handled professionally and efficiently, especially if spreadsheets are involved.

Lesley appreciates the peaceful and collaborative work environment at Sitka, where it’s quiet and her co-workers are always willing to pitch in when needed.

At home, Lesley likes to sew, cook, and garden. She’s sewn many historical costumes for friends and family to wear at Renaissance Faires, which she views as a way to experience living history.

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Dawn Bridgham

Web Designer

Dawn Bridgham

Web design is a career shift for Dawn, who served as a military intelligence officer in the United States Air Force for eight years before choosing to follow a more creative path. She recently obtained a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Southern New Hampshire University with a concentration in user experience and user interface design, joining Sitka as a full-time team member in May 2024 after completing an internship with the agency.

Dawn’s military background taught her to be a strategic, resourceful and creative problem-solver for her clients. She especially enjoys working on web design projects that help her clients’ small businesses grow, particularly during the planning phase. In addition, she helps her clients to maintain their websites on multiple platforms and assists with graphic design for their social media projects.

Dawn appreciates being part of a woman-owned and operated full service graphic design studio where she can learn a little bit of everything creative. An avid reader and runner, she enjoys antiquing, flea markets and traveling around New England with her husband, daughter and their dog.

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Cindy Gorriaran

Special Projects Manager

Cindy Gorriaran

Cindy is an accomplished designer who finds beautiful and practical solutions for her clients’ design challenges from concept to execution. As Sitka’s enthusiastic big-picture thinker, she dives deeply into each new project, ensuring that every visual design element has a clear purpose and appeals to its intended audience. Specializing in printed marketing and sales materials such as catalogs, booklets, brochures, reports, and sales kits, she’s also known for being a hands-on, organized project finisher.

For almost two decades, Cindy worked as an art director and product designer in the lighting industry, where her work was informed by her studies of fine art with a focus on color and composition. An artist since childhood, she holds a degree from Philadelphia University of the Arts where she studied printmaking and design and was influenced by master artists such as Vermeer, Rembrandt & Kandinsky.

Cindy currently lives in Providence, RI. She studies mindfulness and meditation, and rows and runs recreationally. She’s excited to be a part of Sitka’s vibrant team of women creatives.

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Keely Leeman

Junior Graphic Designer

Keely Leeman

Junior Graphic Designer Keely Leeman brings her love of traditional fine art into the modern digital design work she does for her clients at Sitka Creations. Originally from Nevada, Keely interned at Sitka as part of her training, and recently graduated with a BS in Communications Media with a concentration in Graphic Design from Fitchburg State University. She now calls Massachusetts home and works both in-office and remotely, creating social media graphics and print materials for Sitka’s diverse variety of clients. Keely particularly appreciates Sitka’s collaborative team environment and daily morning huddles that help her structure her workday and stay connected with the team.

Keely is skilled in Illustrator, Photoshop, and Lightroom with a strong foundation in traditional art mediums including graphite drawing, oil painting, and plein air painting. Her professors recognized her exceptional eye for typography, and offered her the opportunity to create an independent book project about Fitchburg. She draws inspiration from Renaissance sculptures and realistic art, and favors detailed work that reflects her meticulous nature. Keely aspires to combine her traditional art skills with digital design work, creating original artwork and textures for her client projects.

Known for her strong communication skills, timeliness, and patience, Keely is always eager to learn new skills beyond graphic design including 3D design, architecture, languages, and marketing. She has eclectic taste in music, ranging from 1960s oldies and 80s hits to contemporary pop, rock, and even BTS, reflecting her diverse tastes and curiosity about the world around her.

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Savannah Caldbeck

Graphic Design Intern

Savannah Caldbeck

Hi, I’m Savannah. I started studying graphic design in highschool at Nashoba Tech and am currently working towards my undergraduate degree at Fitchburg State University. Alongside this internship I am also completing my honors thesis project “What Now?” a booklet of compiled resources for those in need located in the town of Fitchburg. In my spare time I love to read, draw, and take hikes.

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Yaskara Oliveira

Social Media Intern

Yaksara Oliveira

Yaskara Oliveira is a high school student excited to join Sitka Creations as a graphic design and social media marketing intern. Although she plans to international law as future career, she has always loved finding ways to be creative, especially through design and social media. This internship gives her the opportunity to explore those passions, gain hands-on experience, and develop skills that will benefit her in many areas of life.

Outside of work and school, Yaskara enjoys creating social media content, planning events, and exploring new creative projects alongside traveling and exploring new cultures. She finds inspiration in the places she visits, the people she meets, and the different styles of art and design she encounters along the way. She’s also passionate about international relations and business and hopes to one day combine those interests to make a positive impact on a global scale.

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