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About Theraisa K

Theraisa Kristen Fleig better known as Theraisa K (or TK by close friends and family) has spent much of her life deeply involved in the Arts. Starting in elementary school where she was selected on many occasions to attend special art classes at the local Cultural Center. In high school, Theraisa was a proud member of the Art Club spending many Wednesday nights after school experiment with new forms of art. After graduating from high school, Theraisa side stepped briefly into the realm of Archaeology, but returned to her roots to graduate from a 3 year Graphic Design program in 2003. After college, Theraisa briefly joined the production department at Chatham This Week (weekly newspaper) typesetting advertisements, before relocating to her current residence in Brantford, Ontario. Since then Theraisa has freelanced her creative services in many different areas – from graphic design to photography to literature and beyond. This is Theraisa in a nutshell, but it isn’t her full story…

From an early age Theraisa honed her creative and artistic skills on many different levels: from a toddler finger painting in the kitchen, to attending exclusive art classes throughout public school, to being a member of the Art Club in high school, to graduating from a Graphic Design program in college, to becoming a freelance photographer, writer, designer and artisan today.

Beginning her freelance career, while still attending Chatham-Kent Secondary School in Chatham, Ontario (Canada), Theraisa helped revolutionize online promotions through her first project: Aid For Bands – a project that catered exclusively to the independent music community at large.

“AFB was initially designed to aid and promote unknown musicians of all genres for free; by way of online and offline street team promotions,” Theraisa explains. “It started out as a fan website, evolved into a marketing hub, and ended up as an international street team service for bands of all genres.”

After graduating from high school, Theraisa spent a short stint in university studying Archaeology before retracing her steps to reconnect with her earlier roots in a more artistic field: Graphic Design.

“I lived in a turn-of-the-century house surrounded by farm land,” Theraisa recollects. “History surrounded me on a daily basis, so there was no doubt in my mind that I’d grow up to be the next Indiana Jones. I mean, I used to dig up my Mom’s garden looking for buried treasure, and often found shards of pottery and at one point even a full skeleton of some sort of animal, at least I hope that’s what it was! But, after my first year of university I decided that being an old crotchety professor or stuffy old lab rat, wasn’t the direction I wanted to head in, so I switched to Graphic Design.”

After graduating from a three year Graphic Design program in 2003, Theraisa’s love for writing and photography began to take precedence over the Aid For Bands (by this time it was known as AFBPromotions) project and so she began writing for online as well as print magazines.

“There came a point in time where I felt the need to move on from street team management and promotion,” Theraisa expresses. “I needed to rekindle my artistic flame and after writing for a handful of online and print magazines, I decided it was time to start my own and that’s when I created Space Junkies Magazine. SJM catered to all my artistic and creative needs: writing, art, photography and design; while still providing services to independent musicians.”

Space Junkies Magazine became Theraisa’s focal point for nearly five years (2002-2006), during which time she had finished school and settled down in the city of Brantford (Ontario, Canada) to start raising a family – thus ending most of her projects including Space Junkies Magazine.

“I knew before my son was born that SJM would come to an end at the close of the 2006 year, but that didn’t stop me from working hard on it up until that point.” Theraisa claims. “It was a great free service to independent musicians, artists, entertainers and others, including all the staff and contributors that volunteered. The amount of time and effort that went into each issue ended up being its ultimate downfall in the end. Not to mention that the interest in the magazine from a readership stand point was beginning to plummet to all time lows. I believe it came to an end at the right time, though I do miss working on it!”

Theraisa spent a great deal of time aiding independent musicians through Aid For Bands and Space Junkies Magazine, but there was one project she kept on the back-burner through it all: Whippitup Designs.

“Whippitup Designs wasn’t much of a project as it was a name for the graphic and web design work I was doing on the side [from fronting AFBPromotions" lang="English">AFB and SJM],” Theraisa states. “It was a place for me to house all my visual work under one name and place. It was primarily the backbone to all my projects, but one no one really knew existed but me.”

Since the downfall of Theraisa’s three major projects (AFB, SJM and Whippitup Designs), her focus on independent music faltered and she began to struggle, shifting focal points and visionary ideas between art, literature, journalism, design and photography.

“I’ve always had a problem staying focused on one industry and area of expertise,” Theraisa muses. “I enjoy doing so much that from a marketing perspective it’s near impossible to get across that I offer so much more than just design or just photography or just journalism.”

From this, TheraisaK.com was born. Initially the project was titled “Theraisa K Designs” and hosted under the TheraisaK.com domain, but the focus on design was short lived. At the end of the 2007 year Theraisa headed off in a new literary direction when she penned a selection of children’s stories: “Fishy In My Pond” (which she also illustrated), “The Golden Crayon,” and “The Transforming Building Blocks.” The focus from design to literature began. Continuing on her journalism trek from where she left off with SJM, Theraisa wrote an assortment of columns for online sources such as eHow.com and Helium.com, while also providing an article to a Detroit, Michigan based publication: Unlock Detroit Magazine.

“I don’t know how many times I’ve redesigned the TheraisaK.com website since its beginning back in January 2007,” Theraisa recalls. “Each time I’ve redesigned the website; it’s taken on a new focus and provided a select service. It started out as a design service, changed to a literary service, had a brief stint as a photography/photo editing service and has now come full circle to focus on design again.”

Outside of TheraisaK.com, Theraisa is the head designer for The Tide, a print zine based out of Wisconsin. She also contributes photography, literature, reviews and art to the zine, while helping to promote each issue through online sources. In between issues of The Tide, Theraisa works on contract based projects ranging from logo design to photo editing to web banner design to journalism and beyond.

“Lately I’ve become a huge fan of Craigslist and RSS job bank feeds,” Theraisa admits. “Though many of the projects I’ve been contacted about start off with high levels of ambition and expectation, they always seem to fall through in the end. But, I do love the variety of projects and challenges that I come across on through these news feeds, so I will continue to use them on a daily basis. Who knows, maybe something great will come of it someday!”

Until that someday, Theraisa has plans to extend her skills into many new areas, such as apparel/clothing/fashion design, CSS web design (possibly even PHP, Javascript and reconnecting with the much despised Flash program), advertising design, post card design and continuing to perfect her skills in photo editing, photography and literature. She also plans to someday register TheraisaK.com as a business while providing a legit office space (in her house, and in the very distant future in a “real” building).

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