On October 3, 2014 an opening of a personal exhibition of a well-known Kirovograd artist, a member of the National Union of artists of Ukraine Felix Polonskyj and a presentation of a catalogue “Lyrical motives of Felix Polonskyj” took place in A.A.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. These events were held within the framework of the project of the series of art exhibition “Laureates of A.Osmerkin regional award in the sphere of art and history of art”, which was set up by the museum. The project is aimed at popularization of creative works of Kirovograd artists – laureates of A.Osmerkin regional award in the sphere of art and history of art, which was established in 2005, in the nominations “national tradition” and “modern tendencies”. The project presupposes organization of personal exhibitions and publishing of catalogues with articles about artists and reproductions of their best works.
  Felix Mykhaylovych Polonskyj – a laureate of the Award in 2007 in the nomination “national tradition”. Colleagues-artists, poets and writers, whose books were illustrated by F.Polonskyj, and worshipers of his work congratulated the painter with his vernisage. A speech of Honoured architect of Ukraine, honorary freemen of Kirovograd V.Kryvenko was especially interesting, because he told about common years of studying with F.Polons’kyj in Invanins’k Art College in Russia (1960s).
    A musical greeting was a performance by O.Tereshchenko – a teacher of Kirovograd children’s music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus.