Fatima Laster is a mixed-media artist, gallery owner and development project manager. She’s deftly combined her skills to transform the former Johnson-Goolsby Funeral Home on Milwaukee’s north side into a space where artists of color and other marginalized people can work, exhibit, find community and live. Fatima, who has worked in banking, bought the site for $1 from the city, which also provided a $25,000 loan. The Cream City brick building with Art Deco details is on Port Washington Road in Fatima’s home turf, the Harambee/Williamsburg Heights neighborhoods, which is not a typical location for an art gallery in Milwaukee. The development includes her gallery, the 5 Points Art Gallery & Studios, a gift shop, a shared kitchen for events, nine artist studios, and two artist apartments. Last summer, Fatima curated a show called “This is America,”  where a range of artists from Milwaukee to Atlanta to Cuba shared  their perspectives on America, addressing a multitude of issues, including social justice, racism, the legacy of slavery and police violence. The show opened on the Fourth of July. "This is the time of the year where people express patriotism, and then they take time to reflect on their nationalism, and their country pride, or lack thereof or what have you, and then what’s usually promoted in the media is the red, white and blue flag, soldiers," Fatima told WUWM, "and usually it seems a little bit more whitewashed and glamorized and it really doesn’t talk about other people’s voices who are a part of America, who have helped build America, and have their culture infused in what is America." Fatima also runs an interior design firm.