On February 19, 2020, anopening of the exhibition of works by the nominees for the Regional Award in architecture, heraldryand vexillology, decorative and applied arts named after Yakiv Pauchenko in 2019 took placein O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The Award was established in 2002 by the Kirovohrad Regional Council on the application of Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine, Kirovohrad Regional Department of Ukrainian Heraldic Society, and Kirovohrad Regional Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. According to the resoluti on from August 22, 2017 No.362 the award would begiven annually not on July 1, on Architecture Day of Ukraine, but on March 21, on the day of birth of the architect Yakiv Pauchenko.
    This year, works only in the nomination “decorative and applied arts” are nominated for the award: creative works in the techniques of patchwork and art-quilling that are based on folk traditions of textile mosaics that are actively brought into modern decorative and applied arts as folklore romanticism – original compositions made from fabrics of different texture using traditional methods of ancient folk, modern, and author’s techniques the author of which is a master of decorative and applied arts Liudmyla Kryvenko, who has been engaged in creative work for more than 10 years and created more than 200 panels that were presented at the national, international, and foreign exhibitions, and festivals of patchwork and textile art; creative work-reconstruction “Collection of pysanky (decorated Easter egg) of Yelisavethrad povit (district) Kherson huberniia (governorate), collected by V.Yastrebov between 1889-1895” in the technique of decorative painting of pysanka – accurate copies of pysanky collected by a prominent ethnographer and local art historian Volodymyr Yastrebov on the territory of the modern Kirovohrad region. The collection includes 31 pysanky made in traditional wax technique by aniline dye on the shells of the chicken eggs by Tetiana Storozhenko, a member of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine, – a well-known master of egg painting, dough art, and decorative painting, and also an incredibly creative artist of our town. The artist, within a creative group of the local artists, created monumental art objects “Wonderful Pysanka” and “Wonderful Bird” that won at the National festival “Parade of Vyshyvanky” to Independence Day of Ukraine in Kyiv in 2012 and 2013. Also, the folk master painted 2-meter-high pysanka with trypyllia motives at the National “Festival of Pysanky 2015” in Kyiv and took the first prize in the nomination “Author’s painting” in the “Regional Pysanka” competition.
    The exhibition was opened by Oleksandr Chornoivanenko, the head of the Regional Council, the head of the contest committee and Viktoriia Kulikova, the head of the Regional Development, Town Planning, and Architecture of the Regional State Administration, who ensured that the members of the contest committee will be objective in their decisions while evaluating the works of the nominees for the award. The artists were warmly greeted by Andrii Khvorost, the head of the Regional Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, and Oleksandra Prenko, the coordinator ofthe Regional Organization of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine, Merited Master of Folk Art of Ukraine, drawing attention to creative uniqueness of the works by each master. Vitalii Kryvenko, Merited Architect of Ukraine, Honorary Citizen of our town, addressed the architects from the regions who were present at the event and encouraged them to join the competition in the nomination “architecture” and present their works that had already been taken into use and are worth to be noted.
    The culmination of the artistic event was the presentation of the works of decorative and applied arts. Svitlana Ushakova, the head of the Department of Art of the Regional Universal Scientific Library named after D.Chyzhavskii, presented the works by Liudmyla Kryvenko because it is in this popular library numerous personal exhibitions of the master were held. The artist presents not only our land but the whole Ukraine at the international level. For example in Beaujolais in France at the exhibition of textile art in 2013, works of only two artists were presented, including the patchwork panel by Liudmyla Kryvenko. And at the International Patchwork Exhibition in Verona, Italy, in 2015, her work won Grand Prix from the main contributor of the event. The famous pysanka master, Tetyana Storozhenko, fascinated by her narration about incredible pysanky, the way they are created, the meaning of the symbols, research and restoration of the traditional canonic pysanky ornaments, and the usage of the author’s techniques of painting and cutting of carved pysanky.
    Everyone who came to the vernissage admired the exhibited works of the talented masters and left their feedback because the contest committee will take it into account while choosing the laureate of the award.