CHICAGO (CBS) – The Great Migration brought a half-million people to Chicago from the south, each with different hopes, dreams, skills and backgrounds.
One South Side artist, Rhonda Hardy, is telling some of those stories through a series of dolls called “Bronzeville Babies.”
“They always have earrings. They always have jewelry on,” Hardy said.
Inside her colorful art studio on the South Side, Hardy gave new life to decades-old stories.
“What you see around the studio is really a manifestation of the dreams that a 12-year-old girl had,” she said.
Her project, Bronzeville Babies, is a collection of eight dolls that tell the stories of the neighborhood. She made each by hand, a process where the hours add up.
