This study conducted an art based narrative inquiry to gain a rich understanding of nurses' experience of working in an infectious disease ward for COVID-19 patients and explore the meaning of their experiences. The participants were two female nurses in their 30s working in a COVID-19 ward of a hospital in Daegu Metropolitan City. The field texts were collected from interview with the participants and a total of 8 art therapy sessions from April to June, 2021. The collected data included the interview recordings and art therapy sessions and participants' artworks created during the therapy. The research data was analyzed according to the procedure of narrative inquiry. considering that the framework of the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space composed. The storie themes of the ward experience were constructed as follows: ‘Living as a nurse', ‘At the frontline of the war against COVID-19', and ‘Dreaming of a return to normal daily life'. The meanings the analysis were described as follows: ‘A hard life in a place where they cannot even guess what will happen in the next moment', ‘Remembering human dignity at the crossroads of life and death', ‘Feeling proud as a nurse,' and ‘Art-making has become an opportunity for self-care.' Based on these results, the meanings of the experience of art therapy were discussed in the contexts of personal, practical, and social justifications.