About - Sitka Creations® LLC

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.

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.

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.

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.

Social Media Coordinator Jacqui Rodrigues started her social media career 15 years ago, learning social media on the job as an administrative assistant at a real estate office before moving to a social media role at a pharmaceutical company. She knows the ins and outs of a variety of platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and has a strong track record of increasing followers and engagements for a variety of brands. At Sitka Creations she specializes in graphic design for social media, editorial calendars, and proofreading.

Jacqui believes that social media is a great way for businesses to make a personal, human connection with customers. She encourages her clients who are afraid of starting their social media presence to just jump in, offering her support, encouragement and expert guidance.

Jacqui loves animals, both in the real world and in TikTok videos. Originally from West Virginia, she currently lives with her husband in the Netherlands, where she enjoys taking photos and doing volunteer work.

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.

As a graphic design student at Roger Williams University, Junior Graphic Designer and Gallery Assistant Camille Fredette was inspired to work for Sitka Creations because of her admiration for the menu they’d created for a local sushi restaurant. A native of upstate NY, she now works for Sitka full-time, creating social media and print graphics for their clients. She’s also taking on a new role as the in-person assistant at their Newport, RI art gallery.

Camille is an expert in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign with an extensive background in fine art mediums who particularly enjoys helping small businesses find eye-catching graphic layouts. She designed t-shirt graphics and created Instagram campaigns as a graphic designer at her college radio station and used an engaging visual rebrand to draw a new audience to an historical cemetery.

Camille is proud of her French-Canadian and Italian heritage. She inherited her name from her grandfather, Camile. She’s also a certified lifeguard who loves swimming in the Adirondacks, spending time with her two dogs and listening to indie rock.

Web design is a second career 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.

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.

Tamar Russell-Brown

Diana Tamburri

Raeanne (Rae) Mullet

Jacqueline Rodrigues

Lesley Pappas

Camille Fredette

Dawn Bridgham

Cindy Gorriaran