Sculptures worth tens of thousands of dollars have been stolen from the backyard of a Birmingham home.
Now the homeowners are hoping someone can help get them returned.
Kulak made a giant red chair that was purchased by the city of Royal Oak.
He is no starving artist. His work can also be found on the campus of Grand Valley State University and in downtown Mount Clemens.
But three pieces of art are missing from his own home. His wife says they're devastated.
Denise Kulak returned home from a trip and noticed they were gone. When she first noticed they were missing, she never would have imagined they were stolen.
Kulak says the three sculptures - two mostly made of copper and weighing several hundred pounds, one made of powder coated metal - are certainly not light enough to grab and run.
“Somebody had to plan it somebody had to have a truck - somebody had to have guys… so they knew it was there,” she says.
The three sculptures were made by her husband - Gary - an internationally known artist currently in Italy for a client.
Gary is also the head of the fine arts department at Cranbrook Schools and has produced many well known sculptures around town, the state and even overseas.
Kulak says her husband is devastated his work was stolen from his own home.
“When you take an artist’s artwork, it’s like taking a part of their soul,” she says.
The Birmingham couple filed a police report and sent out notices to the art community to be on the lookout for them.
It's difficult to put a value on these sculptures, but similar sculptures have sold for tens of thousands of dollars a piece.
The three that were stolen have an added sentimental value - they're hoping somehow, someway they can be returned.
Two of those sculptures are made of copper - which means police will be keeping an eye on the scrap yards.
As. Scrap they're worth maybe a thousand dollars.
