ABOUT RAINBOW MOSHO
My name is Rainbow Mosho and I am a teen artist who uses art to understand a world that can feel overwhelming.
I am inspired by real life moments that are emotional and hard to explain, and I turn them into color and texture.
I am driven to help build spaces where people do not have to shrink to fit in. Through sensory art and projects like a sensory room at my school, I create ways for people to feel safe and understood.
Art gives my life meaning because it helps me regulate, connect, and turn challenges into something powerful and real.
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SEPTEMBER 2026 - Grant from Stimpunks Foundation at work! The ZINE - The Art I Breathe - has been printed (details how to purchase soon)
AUGUST 2026 - Official grantee: THRIVE Grant from Metro Arts Nashville for the project: The Art of Belonging: Creating Calm, Connection, and Community Through Sensory Arts (details below)
July 2026 - Click this link to read my thoughts in Disability Insider
June 2026 - Winner of a Grant from Stimpunks Foundation
Funds will be used to put together a ZINE for Teens and Young Adults - All about Being Unique and Real
IMAGE: First mural, painted in the sensory room I designed and created at Templeton Academy
I was awarded the thrive grant from metro arts Nashville
It is an immense honor to be 18 years old and be awarded such an important grant.
I am beyond happy because I will build community. I will create understanding about sensory needs. I am leaving my mark in the city of Nashville.
I thank Metro Arts Nashville and Healing Arts Project, Inc (fiscal sponsor) for believing in me.
What I'll do?
The 300 sensory art kits will extend the experience beyond the workshops, providing tactile materials, creative tools, and guided prompts that participants can continue exploring in their own time.
Spring 2027 - Rainbow will collaborate with Nashville community partner organizations, including HAPI, YEAH!, Cowboy Ranch Rescue, and Bright Steps, with each workshop adapted to the people, environment, and needs of the organization and participants.
Lived Experience
Now, with support from Metro Arts, I am taking that idea beyond the school setting and into the wider Nashville community.
“This grant gives me the opportunity to take something that started with my own lived experience and build it into something for my community. I want to create spaces where people can feel comfortable, make art, connect, and find their own way to participate. This is the beginning, not the end, and I’m excited to see how far we can take it.”
Nashville
The project also arrives at a significant moment for Nashville as the city looks toward its future as a national destination for arts, culture, accessibility, Special Olympics in 2034 and community participation.
Rainbow sees an opportunity to start building that culture now.
Nashville is the starting point. The vision is national.
Through the Lens: A Pictorial Tour of my brain
Experience
- 2026 - Sensory Art Workshops - Spring Hill Public Library; Book reading - Kidsville at Centennial Park; More is More Social Impact project with VAVortex (WEB3); Design and Create a Sensory Room (Templeton Academy); PowerHouse Youth - Nashville (Summer Employment - DBA Tech); Greek Girl Art exhibited at the island of Hydra, Greece
- 2025 - Teen Fest - Frist Art Museum; NeFaTi - Times Square; The Rogue Kingdom - Theater Dist - NYC; Tomato Art Fest - Nashville; Art on the Moon with Moonmars Museum; Vitruveo in Dubai; Kid Entrepreneur Market; TNMaker Fest
- 2024 - Times Square - Women in Tech Museum; Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art; NFT in Dubai and Belgium;
- 2023 - NFT exhibits in Beijing, Dubai; Give4Kidz CA; Grant - Vitruveo (funds used to sponsor a Native family in Paraguay to acquire art supplies and cover school expenses); Grant - Flower Girls project (funds used to attend NFT event in LA)
- 2022 – Nashville BCycle Artist-in-Residence — First teen and artist on the spectrum selected; artwork featured on city bikes in Nashville
- 2021 - Tomato Art Festival, Nashville; Licensing Agreement
- 2019 - Beale Street Art Crawl – Memphis, TN; Taylor Arts Market; Children’s Art
- 2019–2024 – Art Workshops & Exhibits – Local libraries and public spaces across Tennessee; Self-Publish 5 books
Community Engagement
- Grantee: Thrive Grant - Metro Arts Nashville (2026)
- Grantee: Stimpunks Foundation (2026)
- Vendor - Teen Fest - Frist Art Museum (2025); TN Makers Faire (2025/26)
- Grant recipient - Belmont U - Teen Art Camp (2025)
- Frist Art Museum - Teen Arts Action Group (2024-2026)
- Volunteer - Monroe Harding (ongoing); Nashville Humane Soc
- Borderless Arts TN - Artist Youth Rep. (2018-2023)
- Healing Arts Project - Member Artist (ongoing)
- TNDIDD-MAPS program - Featured artist and advocate (2024-2026)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
- NFTNYC - 2023/2024/2025 - One of 5Teens invited
- Give4Kidz Youth Conference - CA (2023/2024)
- UNGA79 with Women of Web3 - 2024
- First Teen Host of Twitter NFT/Art Spaces (Jan -Aug 2022)
RECOGNITION
- Semifinalist - Nashville Youth Poet Laureate (2025)
- Access VSA/Kennedy Center - Playwright Discovery Program 2025
- Featured in local and FL TV outlets
- Documentary - Tampa Public TV - Autism and Employment