About Lunarsol Studios
Lunarsol isn't your typical creative studio. We're a passionate force dedicated to creating impactful visual art projects and experiences. We love teaming up with a wide range of partners, including artists, art groups, advocates for social justice, well-known brands, foundations, galleries, museums, and anyone who's excited about engaging in art projects.
Our Values
Creativity with Purpose: We channel the creative process as a force for profound positive change.
Equity and Solidarity: We cultivate equitable partnerships and bonds of solidarity in all endeavors.
Healing Power of Art: We acknowledge art's profound ability to heal, kindle hope, and realign people.
Community-Centric Approach: We unite with and celebrate the communities we engage with.
Environmental Stewardship: We support a just transition towards environmental sustainability.
Cultural Sovereignty: We advocate for cultural sovereignty as a cornerstone of preserving and celebrating diverse identities.
Our Process
Step 1: We Connect
Our artists and team connect with organizations, collaborators, and campaigns in need of visual arts strategies. We connect with curiosity and care to develop clarity about the potential fit between Lunarsol and potential clients.
Step 2: We Propose Visual and Project Strategies
We develop clarity, strategy, and a shared understanding of how we will work together to meet the project’s needs, timelines, and goals.
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Step 3: We Execute
Lunarsol’s team consists of artists, producers, and strategists with decades of experience bringing major visual arts projects, shows, events, murals, and more from idea to completion.
Step 4: We Share The Story and Celebrate
Our projects are acts of positive shifts and transformation. We work closely with clients and collaborators to ignite, wake, speak, and create positive outcomes and impacts.
Artists. Producers. Strategists.
Our Team
Erin Yoshi is a community instigator, harnessing her creative power to spread information and create awareness. With a practice deeply rooted in historic cultural memories and current global conditions, Yoshi is able to harness abstract color vibrations and figurative storytelling in the pursuit of cultural diversity and biodiversity.
Yoshi has left her mark over 20+ years experience in social arts practice from leading workshops to building collaborative public art projects. She is a renowned muralist and community organizer. She is a member of The Trust Your Struggle Collective (US), COI (LA), and APC (South America). She previously managed two public art nonprofits as the executive director of the Estria Foundation and the interim director of the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles. She has painted over 100 murals around the globe. All of this in the pursuit of creating hope and lines of camaraderie.
Yoshi has created numerous international mural series, arts/music festivals, exhibitions, and community-based events, utilizing art as a catalyst for creating change. Not only does her art reach communities and audiences around the globe, she touches the lives of many with interactive workshops that support intergenerational knowledge exchange. As a true believer in the power of community, Yoshi supports numerous artists to professionalize infrastructures and create engagement in their artistic practices including curriculums, coaching and mentorship. Her projects include When She Rises, the Water Writes Mural Series, the Memoria Viva Series, and Trust Your Struggle productions, with more to come as the world is constantly changing and the community is never finished growing.
Sarah has 20 years of experience in brand development, campaign design and management, and consumer products. Her expertise reaches across a wide range of industries, including arts, entertainment, elected officials, new media, education, school design, and philanthropy. Sarah’s passion lies in creative operations, with a particular focus on designing captivating digital content and transformative learning experiences. Throughout her career, she has designed schools and startups across sectors, such as arts education, climate, healthcare, immigration, technology, and non-profit philanthropy.
Every day, Sarah is driven to leverage her creative practice to fuel innovation and push boundaries. Her commitment lies in delivering exceptional results and building lasting and meaningful relationships with collaborators and the world around her. She finds inspiration in everyday moments, embracing a sense of ease and mindfulness, while recognizing that nothing is promised. Sarah knows that it is through collaborating, dreaming, and designing that we can bring our visions to life and make a positive difference in the world.
Born in Manila and raised in the Bay Area, Franceska Gamez lives in Sacramento where she practices in mixed media sculptures and mural painting. Upon receiving her degree in Fine Art at California State University Sacramento, she has continued to dedicate full time to her trade. Her willful practice in the arts has led to dynamic bouts in installation, carpentry, writing, curation, art conservation, and project management. She has murals throughout California, Washington DC, as well as overseas- Bali, Amsterdam, and Barcelona.
Along with being a full-time artist, she is co-founder of 1810 Gallery and a member of M5 Arts Collective. Gamez uses both organizations to further drive her passion in the arts and advocate for artists like herself. She has worked with clients including the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, California Faculty Association, Greenpeace DC, The California Auto Museum, Asian American Women Artists Association, San Francisco Arts Commission, Covered California, Planned Parenthood, and The California Rice Commission.
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