On October 6, 2017, before Artist Day and Defender’s Day of Ukraine a meet the artistevent with a school graduate – an artist-serviceman Ihor Popovych took place in Kirovohrad Children Art School named after O.O.Osmerkin. The event was organized by the staff of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
    Popovych Ihor Mykolaiiovych told pupils and teachers of the school about his life of an artist – about studies in Dnipropetrovsk State Art College named after Ye.Vuchetych, from which he graduated in 1990, specialty “artist-designer”, and about the current perfection of his education at the Department of Art of Central Ukraine State Pedagogical University named after V.Vynnychenko, and about his experience in the Anti-Terrorism Operation zone with the 93rdseparate mechanized brigade. Everyone was affected by the story of a drawing depicting a soldier that sleeps hugging an automatic rifle. The artist told that when he drew self-propelled artillery platforms worked fighting back the enemy while defending Donetsk airport, and despite loud booming, the troop didn’t wake up being tired by the war paths. This drawing became an illustration to a collection of poems by a young poet Denys Birzul which was designed by I.M.Popovych on the inquiry of a voluntary organization.
    A symbolic addition to the meet the artist event with an artist-serviceman Ihor Popovych became a travel photo exhibition “Revolution of Dignity. Chronicles of the events”, dedicated to the anniversary of tragic events at Maidan in February 2014, that was exhibited in one of the halls of the museum and tells about Maidan events from the eyes of the photojournalists of the Kropyvnytskyi town. The pupils of the art school looked through the shown photos that documented the events of the present history of our State, with a great interest filling with patriotic spirit and a desire to live in a free, peaceful Ukraine.