Once a world-famous university and cultural center, the Isarn School of Fine Arts has been sacked and vandalized thoroughly over the last 40 years. In recent years a group of young artists and actors decided to take up residence in the old school. The new tenants have painted murals and restored some of the school's facade and damage, turning the campus into an art commune. The artists from all over Galt who flocked to the university grounds banded together to form the Starving Artists, part-time artists, part-time thieves.