Edmonton artist's dream in pieces after repeated break-ins to her new glass-blowing studio
CBC
Leah Kudel's dream was to open her own glass-blowing studio. Five break-ins later, that dream is beginning to feel like a nightmare.
Suspended Studio, Kudel's glass-blowing studio and gallery space, is weeks from becoming a reality in a building outside her home in south Edmonton's Pleasantview neighbourhood.
But five times since the end of the November, someone has tried — and often succeeded — in breaking inside.
"I'm scared to come out here at nighttime, you know?" Kudel said.
It started when Kudel returned from a trip to Calgary and she discovered substantial damage to the door to the studio's furnace room.
Inside, she found weapons, clothing and electronics.
"It was just full of stuff — full of presumably stolen things — everything from double-sided axes, machetes and jackets and clothes and, like, motors and just an insane amount of things."
She reported it to Edmonton police and put the incident behind her.
Then on Dec. 2, she woke up to the sounds of someone trying to force their way in. The following night, she heard the sound of breaking glass.
"There was glass everywhere," she said. "My equipment was absolutely covered, and then I started looking through the studio and started noticing a bunch of things that were stolen."
She installed a new security system, new locks and motion lights.
On Dec. 13, she was awakened at seven in the morning by the sound of the alarm.
When she went outside, her neighbour told her that he'd chased down a man who'd been attempting to break in with an axe.
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