On April 16, 2021, the staff of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum met Merited Artist of Ukraine Feliks Polonskyi in the Museum of Arts where his personal exhibition “Art Dimension of Feliks Polonskyi” to the 80th anniversary of the artist which he celebrated on January 1.
    At the beginning of the event the deputy director of the municipal institution “The Museum of Arts of Kirovohrad Regional Council” Hanna Osypova and the curator of the exhibition, the head of the Department of Tourism, Local History, and Information Work Oleh Yurchenko mentioned that the presentation of the jubilee exhibition was held on April 1 with a limited number of visitors according to the requirements of the orange level of epidemical risks due to the preventing the spread of COVID-l9 cases on the territory of Ukraine. But the initiative of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum to congratulate the famous Kropyvnytskyi artist on his jubilee was supported by the Museum of Arts director Tetiana Tkachenko. She also helped to organize the creative meeting.
    The leading researcher, merited Artist of Ukraine Andrii Nadezhdin during his speech handed the anniversary celebrant a letter of congratulations from the museum staff, posters of the displayed exhibitions from the museum collection “Modern Ukrainian Fine Art” – online personal exhibition of works of Merited Artist Feliks Polonskyi “Creative work is a sense of life” to the 80th anniversary of the website of the museum in the section “Some exhibitions” on January 1, 2021, and the themed exhibition “A painting of Merited Artists of Ukraine Feliks Polonskyi “A red heavy cloud came…” to the 150th anniversary of Lesia Ukrainka on February 12, 2021, as well as the newspapers “Vechirnia Hazeta” with the author’s articles on the expositions. The museum attendant Iryna Tokmanenko presented the artist with a bright bouquet of chrysanthemums for the future still lifes with a sincere wish of health and creative success.
    Feliks Mykhailovych Polonskyi thank for the congratulations and signed the presented posters of the exhibition for the museum collection and our colleagues from the Museum of Arts. The artist and the museum staff communicated in a friendly atmosphere among the paintings of the talented artist.