On March 1, 2019, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum hosted an opening of a personal exhibition of works by Kropyvnytskyi artist Olha Kolomiiets “Ukrainian Baroque in Olha Kolomiets’s vytynanky” within a new museum art project of a series of art exhibitions “Laureates of the Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry, vexillology and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko” dedicated to the anniversary of a prominent architect Yakiv Pauchenko. The project is aimed at popularization of the creative work of artists – laureates of the award in the nomination “decorative and applied art” and presupposes organization of personal exhibitions and publication of themed booklets.
    Kolomiiets Olha Volodymyrivna (born 1964) – a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine, a laureate of the Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry, vexillology, and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko in the nomination “decorative and applied art” (2014). A participant of the town, regional, national, and international exhibitions of visual arts and decorative and applied art. The works are kept in the regional Art and Local History museums, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum in Kropyvnytskyi, Dobrovelychkivka District Local History Museum, in private collections in Ukraine and abroad.
    The current personal exhibition of Olha Kolomiiets presents 27 vytynanky from the series “Birds”, “Cossacks”, and “Art heritage”, which are modern author’s interpretations of significant works of Ukrainian visual art and decorative and applied art, inspired by the ideas of Ukrainian Baroque of the 16th – 18th centuries, historical samples of which are icon painting, plant ornaments, and painting character Cossack Mamai, who is a sacral symbol of Ukrainian people. The works are kept in the collections of the leading museums of Ukraine.
    The artist was congratulated on the exhibition opening by the head of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Town Council of Kropyvnytskyi, Anna Nazarets, who mentioned that sharing the artist’s creative knowledge and experience with the youth is incredibly important. Oleksandra Prenko, the curator of the Regional Center of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine, Merited Master of Folk Art of Ukraine, Vitalii Kryvenko, the head of the Regional Department of the Ukrainian Heraldry Union, Merited Architect of Ukraine, Nataliia Demekhova, a leading methodologist of decorative and applied arts, and visual arts of the regional center of folk art, Hanna Nedlinska, a researcher of the Regional Art Museum, Andrii Nadezhdin, a curator of the exhibition, a leading researcher of the museum, Merited Artist of Ukraine, also congratulated the master. Vita Chernova, the museum director, presented the artist with a gift cup that has an image of the museum on it.
    Creative youth also visited the presentation of the exhibition. Among them were students of the Art and Graphic Art Subdepartment of the Department of Art of Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after V.Vynnhchenko. Together with their lecturer, Ph.D. in Pedagogy, Larysa Harbuzenko, who is also a well-known master of decorative painting and vytynanka and a laureate of Yakiv Pauchenko Award, admired Olha Kolomiiets’s works, listened carefully to her narration about the idea of the creation of the author’s project that promotes folk art treasures from the museum collections.
    At the official events, the museum unexpectedly received a gift – a young artist and architect, nominee for the Regional Award in fine arts and study of art named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in 2018 in the nomination “study and history of arts”, Nataliia Soloviova, gave the author’s graphic work “House of the architect Yakiv Pauchenko” from the series Towers and Peaks of an Old Yelisavethrad to the museum. The previous year, the work was included and printed out among the set of postcards Towers and Peaks of an Old Yelisavethrad from the cycle Architecture of Old Yelisavethrad, that was submitted for the award together with another set of postcards Doors of an Old Yelisavethrad.