Recently featured on HBO’s Beach Cottage Chronicles, this hand-built former fisherman’s cottage on the South Jetty in Bandon, Oregon offers vacation stays, artist retreats and a multi-disciplinary artist residency program.
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Artist Residencies
An Artist Residency at the South Jetty Cottage gives working artists, filmmakers & writers the opportunity to live and work outside of their everyday places, providing them with time to reflect, research, or create work. Artist Residencies at the South Jetty Cottage are seasonal and by invitation only. Our list of potential resident artists is currently closed and selections will soon be announced for Fall + Winter 2024.
Previous resident artists include Wayne Koestenbaum (F22), Niki Ford (S23) & Sam Ashby (F23).
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Artist Retreats
An Artist Retreat at the South Jetty Cottage provides working artists, filmmakers & writers a special discounted nightly rate, giving them an opportunity to step back from their everyday and reflect, research and develop conceptual ideas for future work. Artist Retreats are offered on a first come basis and are seasonally limited. Booking inquiries can be made three months out from date of inquiry. Discounted rates fluctuate and retreats are typically limited to off-season. To see when the Cottage is available for an Artist Retreat, please email info@southjettycottage.com with a link to your website and the requested dates you’d like to stay and we will get back to you.
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Vacation Stays
South Jetty Cottage is available to rent for short-term Vacation Stays which are what make the Artist Residency program possible - all profits from Cottage rentals fund this multi-disciplinary, site-specific program. The easiest and most immediate way to see when the South Jetty Cottage is available, and to book a vacation stay is here.
“I feel powerfully the presence of the aesthetic philosophy underlying this cottage, studio and garden. I’m reading, reflecting, walking, sitting, writing, photographing, filming.”
— Wayne Koestenbaum, Fall 2022 Artist-in-Residence
Inspired by Derek Jarman’s epic garden-by-the-sea at Prospect Cottage, the garden at the South Jetty Cottage is permeable and ever changing. Located in Zone 9b, and in an area nicknamed “The Banana Belt”, a wide range of plants can be grown here, as long as they are OK with wind and and the salty air it pushes inland. Protea, Leucadendron, Poppies (Danish Flag, Icelandic, California, Oriental), Sea Holly, Anemone, Aliums, Snapdragons, Kniphofia, Cardoon, Gunnera, Scabiosa, Agave, Foxglove, Lavender, Rock Rose and a Succulent Rock Garden are the highlights alongside native Manzanita and Mullien — all set amongst gravel paths and a raised deck seating area to take it all in.
