The Department of Art & Architecture class of 2025 includes sixty Design and Fine Arts students who finished their college career by completing individually driven, ambitious thesis projects that synthesized what they learned throughout their time at USF. Students enter this capstone course in their final year, after learning a wide array of skills, techniques, and possibilities in art and design. Through a rigorous ideation, research, writing, production, and presentation process, students realize a long term project based on their own unique perspectives and interests. The final results of their thesis process were displayed in the annual exhibition of projects by graduating seniors in the Design and Fine Arts programs at SOMArts and Southern Exposure in San Francisco.

The title of the exhibition, Wet Paint, implies that the work is still fresh, and just completed, an appropriate title for a group of talented and driven students who are just beginning their creative careers, each in their own unique ways.