Because she has seen students increasingly advocating for social justice and for their intersectional identities, Rachel Epp Buller hoped that developing a new course called Activism, Art, and Design might offer students models of how to leverage art for social change, while also connecting to their institution's values. She is an associate professor at Bethel College, a Mennonite-affiliated institution, where all students take coursework in peace, justice, and conflict studies (PJCS) as a general education (GE) requirement. By creating a new course--Activism, Art, and Design--in 2016-2017, she aimed to center art in this values-based discussion which would offer an unique opportunity to teach social justice through a different disciplinary lens. This article describes how she structured the course around historical and contemporary examples of artists and designers who became activists, seeking societal change through nonviolent protest. She also reflects on what takeaways and adjustments she would make for future classes, based on end-of-semester course evaluations.