Passion animates Dubhe Carreño's voice when she talks about her gallery, opened in 2004 in Chicago. Born and raised in Venezuela, Carreño, 33, came to the United States at 18 to study ballet, but weary of its demands, quit the next year. "When I stopped dancing, I was born again," she recalls. "I wasn't too old to do anything else, and that felt wonderful." She enrolled at the Massachusetts College of Art as a ceramics major. Later she earned her M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Here she reflects on her mission to discover the "new stars of ceramics."
