On April 5, 2023, the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum started the artistic project "Art Studios" under one more theme: "Museum still life". Since the museum exhibition during the martial law in Ukraine was dismantled in order to preserve paintings and other rare items, Kropyvnytskyi artists who are permanent participants of the art project "Art Studios", led by its curator and leading researcher of the museum Olha Krasnopolska, decided to popularize interesting objects from of the museum collection in thematic still lifes.
    After all, it is museums that preserve the memory of humanity, protecting the material carriers of this memory in the form of things. And artists have the ability to read the information that is encoded in the objects of material and artistic culture of mankind, and use it for the development of society - reproducing it in artistic images, conveying the spiritual experience of a person and contributing to the establishment of connections between generations. 
    It is symbolic that the first was "Still Life with the "Borodyansky Cockerel" and the red viburnum" with Ukrainian symbols of indomitability and stability in the struggle for territorial integrity and the future of our country. Olha Krasnopolska, Nataliia Kornilova and Iryna Kukharenko recreated a thematic production on the background of an embroidered towel, sheet and fragments of camouflage fabric in various graphic techniques - tempera, gouache, pastel. The artist Olga Shulyak joined the study virtually, by the way, a permanent participant of the museum art project of the Biennale of naïve art and art of primitivism "Velur cat" named after Andrii Lipatov to the All-Ukrainian Day of Cultural Workers and Masters of Folk Art, and sent her painting work done on viber on canvas with acrylic paints.
    The next was "Passionate still life on the eve of Easter" with works of sacred art surrounded by cartridges and projectiles - icons of horses. 19 and beginning 20th century, which have reached us through the centuries, having overcome wars and contempt for faith, and inspire confidence in the victory of good over evil.
    Iryna Kukharenko, who is a member of two creative unions at once - the National Union of Architects of Ukraine and the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and has repeatedly presented her personal exhibitions at the museum, suggested reproducing still lifes with memorial items from the house of the architect Yakiv Pauchenko and from the workshop of his nephew, painting professor Oleksandr Osmerkin. She was enthusiastically supported by the participants of the studios, because the museum not only preserves the creative heritage of two talented personalities, but also continues the artistic traditions that have always prevailed in this elegant building, which is the decoration of Architect Pauchenko Street.
    Adhering to the ideas that "Art is learned in the museum" and "Beauty will save the world", the participants of the art project "Art Studios" invite everyone who is fond of visual arts to join the artistic action, because nowadays every Ukrainian maintains his front - military, volunteer, humanitarian , informative and artistic. During the war, art and culture change formats, but do not lose their value.