On March 16, 2018, the exhibition and booklet “Traditions and innovations in decorative and applied art of Kirovohrad region” to the 152nd anniversary of the architect Ya.V.Pauchenko was presented in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The event was dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry and vexillology and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko.
    More than twenty works of the artists – laureates of the Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry and vexillology and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko in the nomination “decorative and applied art” from the museum collection are shown in the exposition. Among the works of Merited Artist of Ukraine Nelia Firsova, Merited Master of Folk Art of Ukraine Oleksandra Prenko, members of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Mariia Tserna, Yurii Honcharenko, Olha Kolomiiets, Larysa Kulinich, Mykola, Serhii and Oleksandr Firsov, and also members of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine Larysa Harbuzenko and Valentyna Dobrovolska, which are made in different techniques: ceramics, batik, ornamental sewing, vytynanka, carpet weaving, embroidery and author’s, that brightly reflect the creative work of the artists.
    One of the first visitors of the exhibition was a famous artist-ceramist, laureate of the award, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Oleksandr Firsov and a pupil of the 2-B form of Teaching and Educational Association No. 25 “Comprehensive school I-III levels, natural and mathematical lyceum” Svitlana Ponomarenko, who is fond of drawing.