Anthropomorphic Arts and Education

Anthropomorphic Arts and Education, Inc. (AAE) is the non-profit (501c3) parent organization for Further Confusion. It is responsible for choosing the chairman for each year's Further Confusion, and for overseeing the budget and year-to-year operations.

In the past, it supported the Anthropomorphic Fandom Repository, a library dedicated to preserving the history of and educating scholars about anthropomorphic fandom, and Furdance, a benefit dance benefiting Pet Therapy, a local charity.

Directors
As of the end of Further Confusion 2014, the members of the AAE board of directors were:


 * Berg Polarbear (Vince Cardinale) - Vice President, former Director of IT
 * DecaDog (Gavin Douglas)
 * Latte (Lauren Kelsey)
 * Red 19 (Grant Lautz) - accountant
 * SmackJackal (Sean Wally) - President
 * Squirrel (Laura Cherry) - Treasurer
 * WhiteyFawks (Steven Scharf) - Secretary

The chair of Further Confusion is also traditionally invited to participate in convention-related board activities.

Past members of the board include:
 * Chairo (Corey Strom) - AFR, former Director of Media & Public Relations, former Vice President
 * Chip Unicorn (Brent Edwards) - Founding member
 * Flint Otterhall (David Cooksey)
 * Foxcar (David Richards)
 * Jeff Ferris - former President
 * MitRa (Leon Horne) - Founding member
 * Smiling Wolf - former Secretary
 * WhiteFire (Peter Torkelson) - Founding member