09/02/2025

Be Wined & Dined with Women in Lodging🍸

Lead, Connect, Create: A WIL Cocktail Connection Experience

When: September 9th | 5 - 6:30 p.m.

Where: Hampton Inn & Suites Cincinnati Uptown/University Area - 3024 Short Vine St Cincinnati, Ohio 45219

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Overview

🍴 The Composed Salad: The Basic Elements of Art and Design with Food

Join us for a salad composition workshop with appetizers and wine pairing at our upcoming WIL Cocktail Connection! This program, The Composed Salad: The Basic Elements of Art and Design with Food, offers a fresh, hands-on take on leadership and expression through food.

Presented by nationally recognized food stylist Mary Seguin, this interactive workshop invites attendees to explore how food can be a powerful medium for innovation, intention, and presence. You'll learn to see your plate as a canvas—discovering proportion, color, texture, and flavor composition while having fun and building a salad from start to finish.

Participants are immersed in visual language from the beginning of the workshop.

• Becoming "visual sommeliers" - calibrating the eye for light and dark.
• Lead drawing exercises, kinetically reinforcing the language as we create a progressive dinner drawing.
• Compose their own salads using a palette of ingredients—with and without structure
• Active instruction and Q&A throughout the presentation

🎤 Presenter: Mary Seguin (sample work shown above)

Mary Seguin is a presenter, food stylist for film, print, and a cook, working in the tri-state area and afar.  She holds a BFA Design degree from Bowling Green State University, MFA from the University of Cincinnati DAAP, and attended Cincinnati State Midwest Culinary Institute.  She has worked with many organizations: Greater Cincinnati WIC, Saatchi and Saatchi X, Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, College Hill Gardeners, and private groups. 

You can find her work at MarySeguinFoodstylist.com or on Instagram at marymakesithappen61

🔗 MarySeguinFoodStylist.com
📸 Instagram: @marymakesithappen61

Registration

This event is complimentary to OHLA Members

Parking

Valet parking and surrounding parking garages are available.

Thank you to our Sponsor!