Most people have seen the girl with the colorful Mohawk and funky clothes known as Sarah Kitchens, but what some people don’t see in this North Atlanta senior her is her spunky attitude that makes people smile and laugh and her knack for making wild and creative artwork. Did we also mention that she plays trombone?

There’s a lot to this soon-to-be-graduated senior who has big dreams for the art world. Where music is concerned, she is a trombone player in the North Atlanta Jazz Band. Where her art is concerned, Kitchens is currently taking AP 2-D art with instructor Kimberly Landers. Kitchens continues to wow her teachers and other art students with her fascinating spray painted galaxies. “Sarah is extremely creative and inventive. She is constantly experimenting with the new techniques and media and therefore has developed her own distinctive style,” said Landers.

For her career, Kitchens hopes to work in digital arts and design. Anybody in her AP art class would tell you that her digital art is simply amazing. Everything she makes is captivating and extremely creative. Her use of bright colors and bold lines hypnotizes anyone who looks at it. Her style is like a unique mix of abstract art, graffiti and pop art. “I’ve started to think more outside the box when it comes to my art since my first year in high school. I’ve gotten to the point where I’m not afraid to just get my thoughts on a canvas,” Kitchens said. “Now I don’t think as hard on my art as I used to. I just do it.”

The reason she may be able to think outside the box so easily now could be because of her participation in a group called One Love Generation. The Atlanta-based art association helps artists practice their art and find their style and passion. Kitchens has involved in One Love for six years. Through her participation there, she has developed a love for graffiti, digital art and design. After college, she plans on taking classes for digital arts and design at Full Sail University in Florida. After she’s finished with college, she hopes to become a digital artist for companies like Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky Production.

The world will be a colorful canvas for Kitchens, a girl with a colorful worldview and the artistic chops to execute what she envisions. “I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing in 10 years, but I want to make sure that I’m expressing myself to the fullest extent,” she said.