Edra Soto’s Really Good Year: A Conversation on Practice, Collaboration and Education - Newcity Art “This year, Newcity’s Art 50 focuses on the artists who make Chicago more beautiful and challenge the city to imagine a better version of itself every day. No artist better exemplifies that practice than Edra Soto, a longtime Chicagoan whose interdisciplinary, conceptual practice takes on tradition and cross-cultural pollination with playful, joyous forms and constant collaboration. ” Edra Soto /Photo: Joe Mazza