On 5 December 2018, before the 126th anniversary of the painter and pedagogue O.O.Osmerkin (December 8), an exhibition of creative works by teachers and pupils of art school named after O.O.Osmerkin “Creative mix: teachers-students” was opened in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The exhibition was dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Merited Worker of Culture of Ukraine L.I.Bondar, who had been the director of the school for more than twenty years.
    Exposition of the exhibition consists of thirty creative works of teachers of the school and their students. Presented paintings and graphic works, sculpture and decorative and applied art works reflect the creative skills of each author. The vernissage of mature artists and their young pupils attracted a lot of attention of the worshipers of visual arts, because not that often you have an opportunity to track continuity of the creative traditions and art preferences.
    The director of the school Hanna Tymofiienko while presenting the exhibition mentioned that it addresses the potential pupils of the art school and also to all the worshipers of beautiful. The exhibition is aimed at popularization of visual arts, promotion of the development of children's and youth creativity.
    The head of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Town Council of Kropyvnytskyi Anna Nazarets congratulated the participants on the exhibition opening. She also expressed gratitude to the school staff for active participation in town cultural and educational events.
    The graduates of the school also shared their memories about the school – Merited Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadezhdin, who works as a leading researcher in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum and the head of the gallery of Petro Ossovskyi “World and Motherland” of the Regional Art Museum, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Anatolii Kimnatnyi. They acknowledged their teacher Leonid Bondar, who taught them not only painting but also to appreciate beautiful and reflect it in their artistic works.
    At the end of the event, the museum director Vita Chernova handed Certificate of acknowledgement to the school staff for the presentation of the exhibition in the museum. Also, she presented to all the present a souvenir calendar for the next year with the reproduction of O.O.Osmerkin’s work “Pine” (end of the 1930s) that is shown in the memorial gall.