As a math faculty member in an art and design school, I find the task of making mathematics accessible, relevant, and maybe even fun to our students to be uniquely challenging. This is especially true in our department’s MATH 100 course, which many students use to fulfill the math and natural science requirements for majors ranging from painting and illustration to fashion marketing and jewelry design. Unsurprisingly, hands-on projects and student-centered activities encouraging inquiry-based exploration help students connect math with their respective creative disciplines and overcome the math-related anxiety many of them bring to the classroom. I will share two projects I used in our MATH 100 and math 104 classes, indicating how these projects can be adapted to suit the needs of students in general education math classes at various institutions.