On December 13, 2023, the leading researcher of the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum, artist and poet Olha Krasnopolska, held a creative meeting and master class "How not to go crazy. Art during the war" in the educational and cultural space "Honcharenko Center Kropyvnytskyi".
    The artistic action took place within the framework of the approved Plan of Culture and Tourism Management of the Kropyvnytskyi City Council regarding the implementation of the program of support and integration of internally displaced persons in the city of Kropyvnytskyi (for the period of martial law and 30 days after its termination and cancellation).
    As the curator of the Art Studios museum art project on the theme: "Portraits of contemporaries against the background of war", Olha Krasnopolska noted that the war gives new meaning to everything and society responds to the painful challenges of today, transforming into new forms of interaction, and the most vivid expression of the transformations that are taking place there is art, because the artist cannot stand aside, he broadcasts everything he sees through the prism of his creativity.
    The artist told about the history of the creation during the war of two original art projects, which were presented in 2023 on the museum website in the "Selected exhibitions" section: the exhibition of digital collages "2022 the birthday of Christ" to the anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 24) and the exhibition "Rubbles of pain and faith: graphic, drawn and poetic compositions from the "pink sketchbook", dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of defenders of Ukraine who died in the struggle for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine (August 29), and also emotionally read her own poems created in one breath of impressions and feelings of a person who found herself in the realities of war.
    And the event ended with creative exercises on paper with pencils and paints. All those present, including many internally displaced persons, together with Olha Krasnopolska, drew with pleasure, overcoming negative thoughts and being filled with optimism and positivity.