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“My 9-year-old self is really fulfilled right now,” says Charlie Wirfel, of his feelings about his short film’s selection to the 15th Annual Standing Rock International Shorts Film Festival and Competition. Wirfel’s “Say That Again?” and first-year student Nicki Prentler’s “Swimming Project” were both accepted to the film festival where works by filmmakers as far away as Germany and Italy will debut Feb. 3 at The Kent Stage, 175 E. Main Street in Kent.

This is the ninth in a series of Garfield Log stories that feature students and professors who share the type of connections that define the ideal college, just as famous Hiram alumnus President James A. Garfield intended. Today on the Garfield Log, Sara Sabarese-Carter, a senior majoring in studio art and minoring in philosophy, joins her favorite professor, Christopher Ryan, M.F.A., an associate professor of art here at Hiram College.

“Fired in Freedom,” a showcase of ceramic works from nearly 20 artists, runs Jan. 20 to Feb. 22 at the Hiram College Gelbke Fine Art Gallery, 12000 Winrock Road, Hiram. A public reception with the artists will be held 5-7 p.m., Jan. 20.