March 2026 - Mayer Reed

Detail: Great Blue Heron, 2026 Gold Key regional award winner, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Our rotating art gallery recently featured the energetic work of Delphina Seeger, a student at Ida B. Wells High School and daughter of our marketing manager.

Selected from Delphina’s junior year AP art portfolio, four oil paintings featuring a coyote, great blue heron, river otters and mallard ducks each portray a delightful scene from the ecosystems of our region. Her technique explores color and stylization through animal subjects. “I used vibrant underpaintings,” she shares, “and experimented with naturalistic and expressive color palettes.”

Detail of bright pink underpainting technique

Delphina will attend Oregon State University this fall, majoring in zoology with a minor in studio art.

Flanking the west wing of the Oregon State Capitol, the four-acre Willson Park has been an important green space in Salem, Oregon, since the original Capitol was built in 1854. Now, the park will receive a much-needed renovation as the final phase of intensive improvements at the Capitol building and grounds. Construction at the park has begun with completion expected later in 2026.

Mayer/Reed’s design for Willson Park improves accessibility and circulation and unifies park elements. The new design reimagines the long-defunct Waite Memorial Fountain as a central memorial garden with a two-tiered granite seat wall. The Walk of Flags monument is repositioned along the updated central loop pathway, better connecting the Capitol to the existing World War II and Vietnam War memorials at the park edges.

The Willson Park redesign is a joint project of the Oregon Department of Administration Services and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The project is a continuation of our work with CannonDesign on prior phases of the Oregon State Capitol renovation.

Mayer/Reed Gallery Artist Profile: Delphina Seeger

A Redesigned Willson Park to Cap Renovations at the Oregon State Capitol