Rouble Nagi

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Rouble Nagi
Rouble Nagi at felicitation programme of NGO Bharat Maa Shaheed Samman Trust (01) (cropped).jpg
Born8 July 1980
Jammu & Kashmir
NationalityIndian
Alma materSlade School of Fine Art, London
Known forPublic Art Installations, Sculptures, Murals, Social work, Misaal Mumbai, Slum paintings
Website roublenagi.com

Rouble Nagi (born 8 July 1980) is a Social Worker and an award winning internationally acclaimed Indian artist specialising in sculptures, art installations and paintings. She is the Founder of Rouble Nagi Art Foundation. [1] She is also the founder of Rouble Nagi Design Studio. She has over 800 murals to her credit and has held over 150 exhibitions. She is a member of the India Design Council (IDC) and is one of the pioneer to start mumbai beautification. She has taken up an initiative to start Mumbai beautification with ‘Art Installations’ in and around the city. Her latest initiative named "Misaal Mumbai" is the first slum painting initiative in India, through which she has painted over 155000 houses to date. A project to transform houses in slums in Mumbai to give life to the slum and keep it clean and hygienic. [2] Rouble Nagi was the first artist to be invited to exhibit at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum New Delhi in 2017 and her work was selected by honourable President of India to be put up at the museum. She is author of the book The Slum Queen which released in 2022. Book talks about her work in slums and village in India. Empowering women in rural Kashmir through skill development and creating village entrepreneurs is something spectacular and one of a kind. Nagi was born in 1980 in Jammu & Kashmir, India. She did undergraduate studies in political science and later studied fine art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She has also studied European Art at Sotheby's London.

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Rouble Nagi Art Foundation

Rouble Nagi Art Foundation is a mumbai based NGO, registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act,1950 founded by Rouble Nagi that runs Balwadis with art programs in Mumbai slums and across India to initiate children to come to school. The foundation aims to transform the community through art and education. [3]

It aims to organize Art camps and runs learning centres for the underprivileged to give them a social platform for interaction with the society. Vision is to educate underprivileged, help make a child cheerful, healthy and creative who is respected in the society and whose rights are protected. Also, helping women to become financially independent through skill development program like Studio Saksham, an e-commerce online store. Through Studio Saksham, we combine our passion for a social mission with an image of business like discipline, innovation and determination. Rouble Nagi Art Foundation has created successful women entrepreneurs and served as a platform for aspiring women. The initiative has played a key role in empowering women from rural india, aiming to make them aatmnirbhar and self reliant. The foundation has received support from Bollywood actors, including Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Emraan Hashmi, Sushmita Sen [4] and Zayed Khan.

Misaal Mumbai | Slum Painting

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Rouble Nagi at a social event

Misaal Mumbai is another initiative Social Activist Rouble Nagi. [5] It all began with Paint Dharavi in 2016 and now extended to Bandra West along with several sites in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra. The project in Bandra West consisted of the painting of over 285 houses [6] in Jaffar Baba Colony, Mount Mary, Bandra West. Rouble Nagi and her team along with help from locals and residents painted and cleaned the slums in these areas.

The slums of Mumbai are home to millions of people, however, these areas are often drab and dirty. Rouble Nagi through her initiatives, is slowly transforming the city's slums into giant works of art. [7] Rouble Nagi initially visited slums in her hometown to provide art classes for the children, this inspired her to do more.

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