Teresa Munoz is primarily a printmaker. She earned a B.A. in general art with an emphasis in sculpture and an interest in photography from Marymount College, Los Angeles. She then obtained an M.A in Photo-Silkscreen from California State University, Northridge, and later received an M.F.A. in Collagraph Printmaking from Long Beach State University. Throughout her career, she continued her studies at various institutions including the University of California, Los Angeles; Indiana State University; Instituto Allende, San Miguel, Mexico; Santa Rapata Institute, Florence, Italy; Robert Blackburn Workshop, New York City; Graphics Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Studio Atelier, Kala Institute, Berkeley; and attended numerous workshops at the Riverside Art Museum.
Teresa began her art career in 1968 as a sculptor and pursued photography as well. In 1970, she was introduced to printmaking and realized its potential to reach a wider audience, particularly through silkscreen printing. She combined printmaking and photography in a two-year "photo-silkscreen" project involving clear 3-D boxes, influenced by her sculpture background. Her inclination towards working with 3-D surfaces continued and led her to explore collagraphic printmaking techniques in 1981, allowing for textural and embossed printed images using actual objects for printing. In 1997, she delved into monotype printing, freeing her to pursue spontaneous and painterly ideas. She continues exploring monotype and collagraphic imagery separately, as well as on the on the same surface, and sometimes she incorporates tangible objects.
In addition to her artistic endeavors, Teresa has taught at Loyola Marymount University for 49 years. She initiated and developed the entire printmaking program, introducing silkscreen, relief, intaglio, and lithography. She also served as Departmental Chair from 1991-1995 and again from 2006-1012. Throughout her teaching career, she taught a wide range of subjects including sculpture, ceramics, crafts, drawing, watercolor painting, photography, hand lettering and calligraphy, graphics type and lettering, advertising graphics, illustration, computer graphics, and of course, printmaking - silkscreen, relief, and intaglio. Teresa retired from the university in 2020.