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Collette Hughes

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Just seen on Facebook that the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art at Conwy is closing.  This copied from their post:- It is with great sadness that we announce that the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art will close its doors for the final time on 24 August 2025. Despite the dedication of our staff, volunteers, and supporters, and every effort made to secure our future, the circumstances we face leave us with no other choice but to close. For nearly 150 years, the Academy has been a home for artists in Wales, a place for creativity, exhibitions, and community. We know this news will be as difficult for you to read as it is for us to share. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has been part of our journey — our members, visitors, artists, funders, and friends. Your support has meant the world to us. Though this is the end of the Academy in its current form, we hold hope that one day something new may rise from its legacy. Thank you, The Royal Cambrian Academy of Art Such a shame. 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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It is a shame, and means should have been found to keep it going - sadly, the subsidies institutions need are increasingly hard to find in today's utiliarian and brutal world.  Even so - Wales, for goodness' sake: if you can't support this institution, what is your government and Senedd for?  Maybe you think it's not government's job to support the arts, but it always HAS been - throughout Europe, their great institutions have benefited from, and depended on, central or local government support: without it, they'd have died years, even centuries, ago.  

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Carol .

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A good read, here, Robert. The similarity between the Senedd and central government is they both know how to waste money. Within the village I live I've seen the beauty of a natural environment decimated and then replaced with the same tree saplings, a bench, the river bank ripped out, replaced with huge sandbags ??? the same shrubbery will grow back, over time, so why. All that was needed was a few trees pollarded and a little undergrowth cut back. I could go on, however, this is an art site, enough said. Wasted money, such as this, could go to preserving our precious art academies etc, not only in Wales but all over the country. 
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Carol .

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A good read, here, Robert. The similarity between the Senedd and central government is they both know how to waste money. Within the village I live I've seen the beauty of a natural environment decimated and then replaced with the same tree saplings, a bench, the river bank ripped out, replaced with huge sandbags ??? the same shrubbery will grow back, over time, so why. All that was needed was a few trees pollarded and a little undergrowth cut back. I could go on, however, this is an art site, enough said. Wasted money, such as this, could go to preserving our precious art academies etc, not only in Wales but all over the country. 
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Russell Edwards

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A national disgrace! 

Tessa Gwynne

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What a great shame!