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Randall Perkins, pastor of Faith Fellowship Church adjacent to the bookstore, has offered space in the entry foyer and part of the sanctuary for the exhibit.
"We're happy to participate in the show," Perkins said. "It's worthwhile to our community."
Malbeau, who has lived in Pacific for some 40 years, was a prolific sketch artist whose huge body of work also includes oil paintings and woodcarvings.
She completed the "Christ in the Garden" canvas for an art competition when she was an art student at Ohio State University in the early 1940s.
The painting took first place and has been one of her favorite works. She carried it with her through her travels that took her across the country and back.
Prints of the oil painting and prints of several other pieces of her works will be offered for sale. All proceeds will go to a benefit for Guy Kircher, a barber who is undergoing treatment for cancer.
The East Pacific Business Association is sponsoring the barbecue benefit for Kircher on the day of the show. The barbecue will be held on the parking lot of the Pacific Plaza in the 500 block of East Osage.
Kircher is an employee of Bob's Barbershop which is located in the Plaza.
Malbeau, 88, will be on hand for the show if her health permits.
The array of her sketches show a life well lived - from a lumber camp in Wisconsin to fishing villages in Maine and on the Oregon Coast, to an art gallery in California's San Joaquin Valley. Wherever she lived she drew or painted the scenes around her.
She thought she had lost it all in the flood of March 2008 which completely destroyed the trailer she lived in on a tree-shaded enclave on South Elm Street.
Miraculously the "Christ in the Garden" canvas received only minor damage from absorbed moisture. Brenda Wiesehan, local art restorer, is currently reviewing the canvas for restoration.
Malbeau also built the wooden frame with her own hands, using tongue and groove to extend the frame pieces to 37 inches long.
"Even though the frame suffered a little warping from the moisture I think we should just leave it as it is to keep it original," Wiesehan said.
Also saved in the flooded trailer were more than a dozen of Malbeau's framed drawings hanging high enough on her walls to escape the rising water.
On a top shelf of a crumbling cabinet, a handmade cardboard artist's portfolio that contained 40 pieces of Malbeau's original art also was unharmed.
Following the flood, the aging artist relocated to rural Pacific. She is temporarily in a nursing home following a fall but will be on hand at the showing of her work if healthy enough.
