Remember the stars who you idolized as a kid? Our bedroom walls were plastered with Tiger Beat pics of Blair from Facts of Life, which then morphed into teenage shrines to Marlene Dietrich and Siouxsie Sioux. Chicago-based artist Edra Soto, who was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1971, grew up watching buxom beauty Iris Chacon, the charismatic Puerto Rican performer who starred in the 1970s variety TV show "El Show de Iris Chacon." Beyonce, you're dismissed. more ›

High school art teacher Edra Soto worked with her students to create a cardboard city of skyscrapers that reflects both the students' personalities as well as the styles and forms created by the world's leading architects. more ›