Cyepress Ifamayami Brathwaite (they/them) is a Trinidadian-American multimedia artist and interdisciplinary scholar. They currently work closely with words, clay, and oil paint and are unfurling more into their love for dance, digital collage, and creative direction. They create portals for people to engage with African Traditional/Diasporic spirituality and Queer Black Feminist literature. Cyepress weaves their wisdom as a doula, herbalist, facilitator, and student of Ifá to encourage themself and others to re-channel our energy from production for oppressors into creation for our lineages and communities. Their first solo exhibition, In Incubation, brought people together at a local free community garden for tea and storytelling through sculptural pieces inspired by ancestral reverence, exilic exploration, pleasure activism, and freedom dreaming. The exhibition featured a plaster cast of their god sibling’s pregnant belly, within which Cyepress sculpted an AfroFuturist terrarium. This was the first sculpture of an ongoing transnational archival project centering the care and experiences of pregnant Black Queer/Trans people. Cyepress names their role in community organizing as a “pollinator,” a decolonial understanding of what it means to be an artist and educator. They earned their BA in “Queerness and Black Identity Politics,” a self-designed program of study, through Ithaca College’s Integrative Studies Program. A poet at heart, Cyepress is their ancestors’ baby.