 In 1974 Tufts befriended Texas art historian Alessandra Comini; they developed a shared feminist approach toward art and made a shared home together in Dallas as life partners.They spent summers tracking down works by women artists, for their books to raise curatorial awareness of important works by women that had been relegated in storage.After earning her master's degree in 1957, the Council on International Educational Exchange in New York City hired her as their director of program development.