The Speed Art Museum is partnering with the Festival of Faiths to host a lecture by Dr. John A. Grim on the theme of air in Native-American religious traditions. Dr. Grim is currently a Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at Yale University, teaching courses that draw students from the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale Divinity School, the Department of Religious Studies, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and the Yale Colleges.

The lecture will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition Sacred Air, Breath of Life: Selections from the Native-American Collection.