Martha Hayes, above right, takes a bowl that her assistant Johnny Norman has already fired to 1,800 degrees in a barrel and prepares to place the piece in a can loaded with newspaper, where “color comes to life,” as part of the raku firing process during a fundraiser held on Saturday at the Bay School in Mathews. Below, Kaylee and Barbara Kent display the bowl they made during the event, called the Raku Firing and Pottery Throwdown.