This study acknowledges the function of visual self-expression art through the program Art journey searching
for self . The goal of this program is to promote visual literacy and its’ most effective way to develop is to focus on seeing and feeling with the right hemisphere of a brain. The art here is not the result but the working
process. The program was configured to work step by step from the outside to the inside. It has three parts. The first stage is to appreciate the arts, and to play with arts materials freely. The middle stage is to heal the self through arts, and the third stage to work collaboratively, make a drawing diary with the images that participants made through the whole process and have an exhibition. They experienced self-healing, communicating
with each other by seeing and expressing their own inner feelings that appeared in the process. In this program,
the function of art as visual literacy embodies unity of body/substance, mind/spirit, and sensibility/reason, beauty/spirituality through seeing the self and communication. In addition, participants created good results that
is rich in self-expression. This is a process in which self-esteem is improved as well as self-confidence. The
experience that researchers have conducted for more than 20 years in social organizations is that art is not a special talent, but everyone can learn it easily and more fun, and everyone can become an artist. This point has great implications in art education, and the need for art as visual literacy to serve as a basic subject.