Found, created in the fall of 2000 by Ann and Keith Graber Miller and originally named Graber Designs Gallery, is a small, family-owned business that markets art by international craftspeople and Graber family art (paintings, limited edition prints, miniature pottery, books) as well as provides aesthetic consulting services. In 2008 we opened Found in a small storefront in downtown Goshen, Indiana (208 S. Main Street), though a good portion of our business is still done online. If you'd like to take a virtual tour of the gallery, click here.
We just completed a complete restoration/renovation of our 1880s downtown building, reopening the newly renamed gallery in June 2012. Among our most popular items right now is The Daily Feast: Everyday Meals We Love to Share (Good Books, 2012), edited by 81-year-old family matriarch Esther Graber, with contributors including all five Graber sisters as well as sister-in-law Yvonne. The 250-page cookbook sells for $29.95, and is fast becoming a bestseller; all of our copies are autographed by Esther as well as several of the Graber sisters.
Among our other art and antiques are hand-woven Bulgarian kilim rugs (see our newest arrivals); Bulgarian Orthodox icons painted using the techniques of the ancient masters; Ethiopian Orthodox icons; kilim pillow shams and pads made from antique kilims; Chinese peasant paintings; Asian art and antiques; Russian lacquered boxes; Yixing Chinese teapots; Haitian paintings; Panamanian molas; recycled artillery shell jewelry; and other exotic artifacts from around the world. Watercolors by Ann Graber Miller, who holds an M.A. in art from Western Michigan University; sister Jane Graber's miniature pottery; and children’s books illustrated by Ann's other sisters also are featured in our shop. As of 2011, we now have one of the premiere collections of 20th-century ethnographic West African art, though we are still cataloguing and photographing the thousands of pieces in this extraordinary collection. See also our East African art, including Tanzanian/Kenyan tingatinga paintings and Ethiopian Orthodox icons, from our Summer 2011 trip to Kenya and Ethiopia.
As we travel internationally to various locations in Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, and Eastern Europe -- often living overseas for two to five months at a time -- we work directly with artisans and weavers and their intermediaries, providing income for these extraordinary craftspeople. We hand-select all of the antiques and new artifacts in our gallery, buying fair trade as often as possible. We regularly travel to Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, bringing home antique kilims (some of museum quality) and Eastern Orthodox icons. This year we had a March trip to Dominican Republic; a month in Greece, Italy, and Bulgaria in April and May; and a planned trip to Cambodia and Thailand in July. Last year we were in Puerto Rico, Kenya, and Ethiopia. In 2010 we spent five months in Southeast Asia.
Summer and fall hours for Found are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. We're always open late into the evening on the First Friday of each month, joining Goshen's downtown celebrations. We are also happy to arrange for showings at the business before and after hours. Feel free to contact us by emailing graberfoundgmail.com, phoning 574.534.4394 or 574.202.7436, or by clicking on the Contact Found page on this site. If you'd like to take a virtual tour of Found, click here.
Mia,
Ann, and Simon Graber Miller take a break from our research at an
antique warehouse
in Sichuan Province, China, during a visit to the country.
