• Item: Pair of Brooches
  • Artist/Designer: Mona Trunkfield – A truly fine San Diego designer/creator of one-of-a-kind items of jewelry, whose work is primarily in precious metals.

    Study:

B.A., Art Education, San Diego State College
M.A., Jewelry & Metalsmithing, San Diego State University
Danish Goldsmithing, Copenhagen, Denmark
Numerous workshops, including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Alan Revere Academy.

Teaching:

    Arts & Crafts, High School level, San DIego, CA.
    Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA.
    San Diego State University

Selected Exhibitions:

    California Design 11, Pasadena, CA. 1971
    Object Makers ’71, Salt Lake City, UT.
    Southern California Exposition at Del Mar, Place Winner, 1971
    3rd National Student Metal Invitational, Tyler School of Art, 1972
    World Silver Fair, Mexico City, 1974
    Baroque ’74, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York
    Goldsmiths ’74, Washington D.C. & Minnesota Museum of Art -
    Merit Award, Purchase Award
    Allied Craftsmen Exhibition, San Diego, 1974 – guest exhibitor
    “The Uncommon Smith” Invitational, John Michael Kohler Center
    For the Arts, 1974
    Jewish Community Center, San Diego, 1974
    Invitational – Graduate Student Work, Southern Illinois University,
    Carbondale, Ill. 1974
    Invitational – University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, 1974
    Invitational – Dale Gardiner Gallery, Rancho Santa Fe, CA. 1974 Invitational – Society of North American Goldsmiths, Atlanta, GA. 1975 Marietta College of Arts & Crafts National, Marietta, OH. 1975
    Invitational – “The American Tradition in Gold & Silver,” Lowe
    Museum, Miami, FLA. 1975
    Society of North American Goldsmiths, Seattle, WA. 1976
    Invitational – “7 San Diego Women in Metals,” Grossmont College, 1979
    Invitational – “Two Decades of Metal,” San Diego State University/Brigham Young University, 1981-82

  • Description: A set of two brooches executed in 1972, each with an amethyst floating in the center of an abstract silver framework.
  • Dimensions: each 1.75” X 2”
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Price: $300

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