Butterfield Park is located under the Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design and connects with walking paths to Grange Park, next door. The park is often used to host OCAD U events such as Welcome Day and Orientation programming, or aspects of our annual Graduate Exhibition. There are publicly accessible washrooms positioned between Butterfield and Grange Parks.
An award-winning Toronto architectural landmark, the iconic Rosalie Sharp Centre for Design (often referred to as "the tabletop") was designed by acclaimed British architect Will Alsop, and is suspended over Butterfield Park by twelve multi-coloured steel legs.
pi'tawita'iek: we go up river is a large-scale outdoor mural by Jordan Bennett installed on the south wall of OCAD University’s main building, adjacent to Butterfield Park. Bennett's work grounds the space in Indigenous material culture, and is rooted in the artists' relationships with Mi’kmaq porcupine quillwork. He brings forward and reimagines their graphic patterns, bright colours and inspiring stories. In visiting with these cultural objects Bennett connects with their visual language and furthers this visual conversation through his contemporary influences and experience.