Liu took a different approach, encouraging them to be bold and paint what they felt. In 2002, she established the Occupational Injuries Painting Society and held an Occupational Injuries Art Exposition. Her endeavors were the first in Taiwan to encourage injured workers to use a brush to relate their own stories and produced actual historical evidence of working conditions on the island.
然而劉秀美卻鼓勵工傷者勇敢畫出自己的感覺，並於 2002 年成立「工殤畫會」展出「工殤美展」，這是國內首次由工傷者以畫筆記錄自己的故事，為台灣的勞動環境實相留下歷史見證。