When he came to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel as pastor almost 15 years ago, the Rev. Niles Gillen decided to confront the kids in his South End parish with the wider world. He put big maps on the walls of the parish school. Beside them, he hung travel posters. Geometric patterns in a Mondrian print help create the right mood for the school's computer lab. An array of Kandinsky's work surrounds the entrance to the school courtyard.
Presidential portraits hang in the library.
There's an Italian theme in the large meeting room, and not far away a group of eight Edward Hoppers. Here a wall of Miro, there a wall of Munch. Elsewhere a hall filled with Picasso on one side and Matisse on the other. In all, more than 400 framed prints are on display at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Gillen has scrounged and filched to get them.