Tenbeete Solomon’s spacey design will appear on 24 oz cans of PBR this fall.

/ Pabst Blue Ribbon

This fall, when you pick up a 24-ounce can of Pabst Blue Ribbon at the store, take a close look at the label: It might bear the work of local artist Tenbeete Solomon. PBR announced Monday that the 26-year-old graphic designer is one of the winners of its latest can design contest, meaning her scene of a spaceship abducting a can of PBR (or are the aliens delivering it to Earth?) will grace about 5 million brews that will be distributed around the country starting October 1.

“I’ve still been processing the fact that people can go in grocery stores and see my design,” says Solomon, who designs under the name Trap Bob. “As soon as I find them I’ll be there posing in front of the cans.” For her winning piece, Solomon will also receive a cash prize of $10,000. She is one of three winners of the sixth-annual art contest; the other two winners’ work will appear on the 12- and 16-oz cans.

The design she chose allowed Solomon to draw one of her specialties.

“I’m really into drawing hands,” she says. “[All] people can relate to them, and I don’t like to alienate with my work.”

As for the outer-space theme, well, Solomon is pretty bored by us humans. “I like drawing people, but creatively it doesn’t get me too excited,” she admits. “Humans are pretty simple in their structure—you can’t really stretch that work too much. I’ve gotten really into aliens because they’re all imagined. That idea of endless opportunity and possibility, it’s inspiring and helps us get out of the box.”

When her spacey cans are released across the country this fall, Solomon says, it’ll be the widest distribution of her art that she’s ever seen. Under her company Trap Bob World, the Columbia, Maryland, native has designed for the Trillectro and Broccoli City festivals, and she’s whipped up Instagram stickers that can appear in users’ stories for Giphy. This month, she’s working out of A Creative D.C.’s Brookland studio as their artist-in-residence. While there, she’ll present two shows of her work: One in February, Girls in Power, that highlights “women of color who are killing it right now,” and another in March, HANDS ON, which “celebrates women’s versatility.”

Her work tends to focus on women, especially women in power (just take a look at her stickers of Maxine Waters, Lena Waithe, and Ava DuVernay for proof) and she says the D.C. area is a particularly habitable home for art with a social message—plenty of local creators have turned into “artivists,” she says.

“What I’ve seen over past couple years is [more] groups and collaborations that are working to send a bigger message,” she says.  “I’ve always gone back and forth about moving to [New York or Los Angeles], but every time I leave, I miss D.C. We’re in a renaissance, and I’m so sure I want to stay here and be a part of the city’s growth. I’ve never seen creativity like I’ve seen here.”