WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian American Art Museum welcomes Tiarna Doherty as its new chief conservator. Doherty will be responsible for overseeing the staff and programming at the Lunder Conservation Center. She begins work Nov. 7. “It is my pleasure to welcome Tiarna Doherty to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where her superb experience and intellect will bring creative new energy to the program,” said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Doherty comes to the museum from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where she has been a paintings conservator since 2002 following a post-graduate internship. She earned a master’s degree in painting conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware art conservation program in 2000. Doherty