Romy Saenz Hawkins is a native of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, and studied art in Guadalajara, Germany, and Mexico.  After earning a BA degree in psychology in 1985 from the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, she completed a workshop in the ancient skill of hand-pressing relief lines onto the backside of copper, aluminum, brass, pewter, or silver panels.  Her work has been exhibited regionally and included in private collections.  Saenz Hawkins has been an instructor with the OLLI program at UTEP since 2004 and often teaches at the El Paso Museum of Art.