On February 22, 2023, the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum organized a creative meeting with the artist Olha Krasnopolska, the author of the virtual exhibition of digital collages "2022 Christ's Birthday", presented on the museum's website in the "Selected Exhibitions" section for the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops to Ukraine. The exposition consists of thirteen collages made by the Kropyvnytskyi artist in February- March 2022, and her author's poem "2022 Christ's Birthday", the symbolic name of which became the title of the personal exhibition.
    The event was held at the Tourist Information Center as part of the "Patriotic February" project, organized by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council. There were also presented printed collages that were created a year ago, but which, as their author noted, are still relevant today. Reflecting the entire range of thoughts and feelings of the first days of the war, a year later they are perceived differently, because in fact they are prophetic and life-affirming - Ukraine is bloodied, but unconquered, it is defending itself, and Ukrainians are defending their land and liberating it from foreigners.
    During the meeting, Olha Krasnopolska not only talked about how the idea of creating collages came about and how this creative process took place, but also enthusiastically read the author's poems, written as a response to the tragic events in the country.
    The creative meeting was attended by her friends, as well as journalists, poets, museum scientists, artists and colleagues - teachers of the children's art school, where she works as the head of the fine arts department, art school named after O.O.Osmerkin, in which she once studied, and the alternative school "KrOK", where she teaches drawing. Olga Krasnopolska presented all of them with a thematic booklet of the exhibition, the design of which was carried out by museum scientist artist Nataliya Kornilova.
    The artist was congratulated with the opening ceremony by the Deputy Head of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council Nelya Chorna, Director of the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum Vita Chernova, Headmaster of the Children's Art School Andriy Tsarenko, Director of the alternative school "KrOK" Zoya Lebid, Chief Custodian of the Art Museum's Funds Valentyna Nozhenko, head of the Kirovohrad regional organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, Nadiya Harmazii, poetess Antonina Tsaruk from Kropyvnytskyi, artist Mykola Lomakin from Kharkiv, and artists Iryna Kukharenko, Nataliya Kornilova and Olha Kolomiets, who are active participants in the museum art project "Art Studios" on the theme: Portraits of contemporaries against the backdrop of the war", curated by Olha Krasnopolska.
     And the spring flowers presented to the artist instilled confidence in everyone present in the victory of light, good and life!