The Box’s vast ground floor space hosted a creative feeding frenzy of sorts as VCU arts students forged animalistic design at Anteeksi’s LIVING THINGS SAFARI on March 10, 2006.

Anteeksi, possibly an artists’ collective (it’s not entirely clear) from Helsinki, Finland, hosted a workshop for six teams, consisting of VCU Interior Design, Fashion, and Graphic Design, and Communication students, to conceptualize, fabricate, and present their living things’ creations. The students—all “Zookeepers” in this milieu—used the vacant ground floor to stage a fashion show, replete with catwalk, of course, and to show off their animalist tendencies in creatively constructed cages.

When the circus was over, everyone sought the local watering hole, and ended up cooling off at Legends down the street. To see fun pics of the Anteeksi experience at 3north, go to www.anteeksi.org. You’ll wish you had been there.