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Christine Chapin
Kristine (Christine) Chapin is a St. Paul, Minnesota writer-editor in the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Office of Communications and an MPR News Art Hounds contributor.
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Oct 1, 2026
Art Hounds: The sounds of paintings, botanical prairie prints and Eastern European music
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0:05Kristine ChapinGUEST
I live in St. Paul, Minnesota, where we enjoy a variety of options for, uh, visual and theater arts especially.
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0:14Kristine ChapinGUEST
Louvenia Snother is a St. Paul artist who has been creating for years from natural products.
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0:22Kristine ChapinGUEST
This installation, it uses, uh, six or seven different types of fabric, six feet long to two feet long, and, um, they hang from the ceiling and sway gently as the observers walk through the room, and it very much creates a feeling of a walk, a stroll.
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0:44Kristine ChapinGUEST
She calls it a stroll through the prairie, and that is exactly what it feels like.
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0:49Kristine ChapinGUEST
The colors, the textures, and the types of grasses that are visible on these, on this fabric very much create that feeling.