

'I've never worked with a colleague who had such a combination of breadth and excellence.'
Ray Williams
former Director of Education
Peabody Essex Museum & Blanton Museum of Art
Pedagogy
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Embodiment
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Articulation
Twenty-five years of performance practice and seventeen years of museum education are not separate careers. The same conviction runs through both: that the body — moving, making, watching — is a site of knowledge, and that the conditions under which people encounter art determine what art can do.
Belsaré holds a Master of Arts in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston) and a BFA in Applied Arts from Delhi College of Art. She served as Museum Educator at the Peabody Essex Museum and later as Curator of Education at the MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), Boston — seventeen years of building programs at the intersection of visual art, embodied practice, and public engagement.
She has been invited as artist-in-residence and guest lecturer at universities, conservatories, and colleges across the United States.

Residencies
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Guest Lectures
Intersections Conference MIT, Cambridge (2025) Krishnamurthy Foundation, Pune (2025)
University of Hawai'i (2023)
Tau Dance Theater, Honolulu (2023)
University of California, Berkeley (2019)
Georgetown University, Washington DC (2019)
Drexel University, Philadelphia (2019)
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco (2019)
William Paterson University, New Jersey (2019) Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2015, 2016) Holy Cross College, Worcester (2011)
Marymount Manhattan College, New York (2009) University of Wyoming (2008)
Emerson College, Boston (2007)
The New School, New York (2007)
Tufts University (2005)
Boston University (2004)
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (2001)


Museum
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Institutional Education
Curator of Education · MassArt Art Museum (MAAM), Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston
Museum Educator · Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts


Teaching Areas
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Bharatanātyam technique and philosophy
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Embodied approaches in dance and visual art
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Myth, ritual, and performance
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Cross-cultural iconography
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Art and movement integration for interdisciplinary practice
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Studio: grisaille and glazing technique in oil painting
