 Milius began spending time at the Fifteenth Street studio, which was shared by Mervin Jules and Axel Horn.A social center for artists, intellectuals and revolutionaries, it was there where she met Cecil Lubell, a Harvard graduate and scholar of William Blake and James Joyce who became an expert on textiles and authored several books and an encyclopedia of textiles.The two had much in common, including the belief that the Communists were the only group addressing the serious problems in society at the time.