For perhaps obvious reasons, I thought Derek Erdman's Graveyard was the last bit of art Seattle would see of Derek Erdman before he scurried off to Chicago forever. And I was sad. The idea to fill a grassy field at Volunteer Park with signs for luxury condos was surprising, cheeky, funny, goading, slightly illegal(?), and all the other adjectives that reminded me of the bright, poppy Erdman paintings I admired when I first moved to Seattle in 2011, just as he was really beginning to ramp up production.

Luckily, this Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m., Erdman and Ashley Armitage are throwing a big going-away art sale at their apartment on 16th and Madison. Erdman has over 100 paintings he wants to sell. Including...

Most of the paintings up for sale will be his own—many old, but also many new—and he'll also have paintings by other people that he's purchased while living here. Armitage will be selling prints of her work, as well as the couple's own books, clothes, music, and housewares. If you don't know Armitage's softglow-magic-hour rainbow prints that look like shoegaze sounds, then check out the cover of the July 26, 2017 issue of The Stranger. She did that one. Anyhow, 10 percent of the proceeds from this weekend's sale will go to Mary's Place.

In high Erdman style, the event will be sponsored by Haribo, Rainier, Stumptown, and Nathan's Hot Dogs. There's going to be bowls of gummy bears everywhere, plus free beer/coffee and hot dogs (meats/non-meats) for as long as supplies last.

Though Erdman claims to be in "the best Misfits cover band north of Royal Brougham," there won't be any live music at the art sale.

But will he, as he has in the past, megaphone animal noises out of his window at innocent passersby? "Perhaps!"