Saturday, November 8, 2025
Hedy Page, a Holocaust survivor and Long Beach artist, will unveil her latest work, Painting number 93: Eric’s Full Circle Legacy, at a Dec. 22 holiday event. The event will occur at 670 Long Beach Blvd., across from Bridgeworks, from 2 to 4 p.m.
The painting is a tribute to Page’s late husband, Eric, a fellow Holocaust survivor who endured the Dachau Concentration Camp. The work celebrates individuals from the Long Beach community who embody kindness and connection. Page created the piece to fulfill a promise to Eric to document love and hope, inspired during the Centennial Nights Celebration and Floating Lamps event on Aug. 12, 2022.
“When Eric and Hedy married, he knew that her spirit of love would ensure that their lives would draw love into their circle and would give them opportunities to help and care for others,” Johanna Mathieson, executive director of Artists in Partnership, said. “Painting 93, Eric’s Full Circle Legacy, is Hedy’s tribute, and fulfillment of her promise to Eric that she would create a portrait of love that included people they knew who brought Joy, love and kindness to the community. The painting would be a lasting document of hope- a reminder that goodness can prevail and can stand up to the daily headlines that, emotionally, can leave us with feelings of despair, anger and isolation.”
AIP is privileged to have been recognized by Hedy and her family for their work as a not-for-profit cultural arts organization serving the community since 2000, Mathieson shared. The organization has also been entrusted with stewarding Painting #93. Proceeds from the sale of 100 limited-edition, artist-signed prints will fund a new “Good Works Fund” to support artists and cultural programs in Long Beach and surrounding areas.
Page is well known for her earlier painting, March to the Millennium, which depicted Long Beach community members during an uncertain time. Her latest work continues her focus on resilience and community.
“I have the great privilege of being included in Hedy’s painting, as well as in her March to the Millenium — a painting from 2000, the turn of the century- a time of great confusion, uncertainty and sense of doom countered by her painting of the Long Beach community movers, shakers and doers,” Mathieson said. “Where Love persisted and every story mattered.”
The event will include live music by Benoir and friends from Studio Noir, crafting activities, and gifts from Ilene Fox’s Realize Harmony table. Light refreshments will be served. Prints of Painting #93 will be available for $200 each, with payment options including check, cash or PayPal.
Additionally, non-perishable items for the Long Beach Soup Kitchen will be collected in the lobby.
For more information about Page’s work and AIP, visit aip4arts.org.
