From 1964 to 1967 she was a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship holder for Florence and was awarded a doctorate in 1971 with a dissertation on Leonardo da Vinci and Filippino Lippi.
[3] In 2000, she was a founding member of frauenkunstforum-owl e. V. and 1987-1994 a spokesperson for the women's studies section in art studies in the Ulmer Verein - Verband für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften [de].
[4] Since 1988, she has been the initiator of the Women's Forum in the BDK Fachverband für Kunstpädagogik [de].
In 1998, Below became involved against the name Richard Kaselowsky for the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, which is why the then director Thomas Kellein turned to the school board for support against this "teacher gone wild".
[5] She was and is involved in many socio-political activities; in the 1980s she was co-founder of a self-managed day-care centre with alternative pedagogy, and in 2017 of the self-help initiative "Wir für uns-anders Altern".