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Jasmine Abena Colgan鈥檚 life, art and body have become a metaphorical鈥攁nd literal鈥攕ubversion of deeply held ideas about race and America.听

Born to a father of Irish heritage and a mother with Ghanaian roots, Colgan was diagnosed at age 21 with vitiligo, a progressive, autoimmune condition that causes loss of skin pigmentation.听

Since then, more than a quarter of her once-brown complexion has turned white.听

鈥淭his transformation has become a representation of my complex identity,鈥� she says. 鈥淚 am not a woman of color, but a woman of colors.鈥澨�

Colgan, a Master of Fine Arts candidate in interdisciplinary media arts practices, has created a photographic project called 鈥淭ough Skin,鈥� depicting Americans with vitiligo, which received widespread media coverage around the world.听

She named the project in honor of her late grandmother, an Irish Catholic, farm-raised Nebraskan who told her, 鈥淵ou gotta have tough skin.鈥�