Anna's thoughtful examination of her life as a young woman at an innovative art institution during a chaotic time chronicles events at the Bauhaus and in Germany between the wars.

Germany's loss in World War I is felt in everything socially, politically and economically.  As the Weimar Republic emerges Hitler and the Nazis rise to power.  Architect Walter Gropius's vision for a new kind of school, with a unique method of combining art and craft to train artist and architects attracts such innovative and inspiring teachers as Wassily Kandinski, Paul Klee, and Johannes Itten.  Anna Werke, a sensitive and spirited young woman, is intrigued by the opportunity to join other young people in the pursuit of the Bauhaus's aesthetic ideal.  She finds herself part of its most successful workshop, the weaving workshop or Weberei.

woven: a bauhaus memoir written and illustrated by Suzanne Work Hokanson traces the impact the dynamic and disturbing times, as well as the talented teachers, had on a student at the Bauhaus. Anna's thoughts recorded in her journal are illustrated with pen and ink sketches she made of the people and places she experienced.  Using the historical fiction genre, the author gives us a unique and thought-provoking perspective of the creative and chaotic world of a Bauhaus student.