Mona Trunkfield is a California studio jeweler associated with the San Diego craft movement of the 1960s–1970s. She studied at San Diego State College and later completed an MA in jewelry and metalsmithing under influential metalsmith Arline Fisch.
Originally trained in art education, Trunkfield taught arts and crafts in Chula Vista before returning to study jewelry. She later studied Danish goldsmithing in Copenhagen and exhibited at major institutions including the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Minnesota Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Crafts in New York.
Her work is associated with the experimental, large-scale body ornament movement that developed in San Diego through Fisch’s program. A 1971 body ornament by Trunkfield was featured in the “California Design” exhibition and later highlighted in exhibitions about San Diego’s craft history.
She has also been a member of the Allied Craftsmen of San Diego, one of the region’s oldest professional craft organizations.