On March 24, 2017 an opening of personal exhibition of graphic works of an amateur artist M.F.Yavtushenko “Kazarnia pastorals of Mykola Yavtushenko” took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
    Yavtushenko Mykola Fedorovych (born 1959) had been working as a teacher ofphysics, mathematics and drawing in Kazarnia comprehensive school of Znamianka district, Kirovohrad region for many years. Had been studied in Moscow Extramural People’s University of Art on the Department of Painting and Graphic.An active participant of regional and all-Ukrainian exhibitions of amateur fine and decorative and applied art. In 2000 was opened his first personal exhibition in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
    More than twenty graphic works of 2012-2016 is shown at the current exhibition. They represent favorite art genres of the artist – landscape and still life, and also portrait.
    The museum director V.V.Chernova, leading research officer of the museum, Merited Artist of Ukraine A.M.Nadezhdin, colleagues and friends came to greet M.F.Yavtushenko on the vernissage.